Everything I do is completely original-I made it up when I was a kid.

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.

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

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

I got a little studio in Chicago and practiced. I realized I had to earn some money. So I went to work for an advertising agency where my job was mostly drawing insects for a company that sold an insecticide spray.

Food is like clay; you can sculpt with it. Also it has an odor, and you can eat it. I don't eat a lot of cake, but I do make cakes! And unlike the Campbell's Soup Cans, my food is a humanized form and scale.

I am for the art of underwear and the art of taxicabs. I am for the art of ice cream cones dropped on concrete.