Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.

I had, over the years, collected things, small things, as people do, and I had put them all together and showed them in what became a building in the form of the Geometric Mouse.

The main reason for the colossal objects is the obvious one, to expand and intensify the presence of the vessel - the object.

Duchamp is known for calling a thing art, rather than making it. A lot of that is picked up in pop art, too.

Ox-Bow was a very free place, very open. You could do whatever you wanted to do.

I started to draw buildings. I called them Proposed Colossal Monuments - they weren't for real, not for actual building. It was more a critique of architecture.

I got a job as a dishwasher in Oakland, and I would draw all day. It was nice because the lady who ran the boardinghouse where I worked let me live there for nothing if I gave her some drawings every week - mostly park drawings of birds and such.