If you can explain a poem, it is not a poem. Poetry has to be inexplicable.

Usually the Indian people are outsiders who have to look up at the people who look down.

You never know who will see your images hanging. And I like that. I think you never really have control over the things that you do.

I am a postmodern romantic. I try to use their way to photograph, and at the same time, incorporate the problems that I feel in a country like Guatemala.

It's very hard to try to be a cultural . . . people who organize cultural things . . . it's very complicated. And more so in a country like Guatemala.

I think it's impossible to know the destiny of things.

I am an architect. I try to feel the transparency in contemporary buildings and I try to understand the transparency in Zen poetry. I just want to mix all those things.