My whole career I've been interested by the distinction between an emotional and an intellectual response to an artwork.

I believe people can have a profound experience by being surrounded by something beautiful - that's what I aim for. My sculpture is about the way you feel when you're standing under it and inside it. It's experiential art.

The most powerful part of the art is experiential, yet it's the hardest to describe because it's nonverbal.

You can't stumble upon something new and wonderful if you don't have time to stumble.

My whole career I've been interested by the distinction between an emotional and an intellectual response to an artwork.

In my regular life, I am very involved in commissions for cities and sometimes countries. And I think of public art as a team sport. The outcome is only possible with the interaction of all the players.

As a child, I always enjoyed building forts by stringing up bed sheets and clothes. I continue to be inspired by makeshift structures, including my own kids' forts and temporary architecture of all sorts.