The 1,000 Buddha, to me, is almost like a contemporary art piece.

Many people [still] believe that at the time of your death, 1,000 Buddhas show up and welcome you into the paradise state.

Waterlilies always come in Buddhist sculpture. The Buddhas all stand on lotus pedestals, because the lotus is grown from the mud. The mud represents the stained world, a dirty world, but growing from the dirt is such a beautiful, pure thing. This is the way the spirit should be.

To me photography functions as a fossilization of time.

I'm inviting the spirits into my photography. It's an act of God.

I have a strong feeling about this quick movement and changing of society and populations growing - something scary.

Not any particular religion or school of religion, but being an artist, you have to be spiritual, in a way.