A lot of my work is about honouring or elevating a humble …sometimes even utilitarian or banal form or object into a memorable object. I see it as a kind of amplification … I often call it a material ‘soap’ I like the idea of the sculpture as a sort of slow (stationary) drama… I am continually working on aspects of ‘process’ and method. I strive to design in an elegance to the process … I have often thought of the act of making a work as a slow audience less performance. I have a strong urge to make beautiful objects and ergo, peoples’ responses to that … it seems people tend to measure themselves against beauty …if they see it at all … and am continually amazed at the meanings people project onto artwork … I see the language of objects as immeasurably rich and deep … and sculpture as a tiny subset of the collective ‘all manufacture objects’…as such it is under great pressure to perform …especially as the quality and range of manufactured items soars … 

David McCracken, 2014