The more I see of your life and work, the more I realise how fundamental your relationship with the desert is. Can you tell me what the desert means to you?

Life in the desert is what I love, I love the dry hot summers, the chance of a thunderstorm and heavy rain that happens very seldom. The nice fall time , the cold and sometimes windy winter where I can sit by a fire in the house or by the pottery firing outside. Springs can be full of flowers or not depending on the amount of winter rain and freeze to germinate seeds. I don’t know how I would ever live in a city, I’ve done it in a few occasions, hard to fire pottery and shoot bows and arrows when people are so close to each other. If I could move farther away I would. I don’t think my family would follow me. I do like to see the vastness of the desert, it is a lovely place and can be very unforgiving even when you think you are prepared. I love the big skies and how far you can see. 100 miles or more in the right places.

Photo story with weaver Julie Rignall