Nothing is ever guaranteed, and all that came before doesn't predicate what you might do next.

I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist.

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.

My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.

I also wanted remembering the past relevant to the present. Some people wanted me to put the names in alphabetical order. I wanted them in chronological order so that a veteran could find his time within the panel. It's like a thread of life.

A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time.

Our lives are given meaning by our actions-accomplishments made while we are "here" that extend beyond our own time.