Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.

I think I needed to really move past my first public work as memorialist, and be equally balanced. It's a bit unusual, to be working between the architecture, the art, and what I would say is a synthesis, the memorials - they're problem solving, but it's very symbolic. You get this triangle; I need to be balanced with those three. They're all equally a part of who I am. I love how different they are, and yet they're coming out the same thing, whatever it is.

I'm not in a hurry to do a lot of projects. I am very resolved in each project I take on.

Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles.

Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.

It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public.

I do not think you can find a reason for everything you make.