My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground.

You have to have conviction and completely question everything and anything you do. No matter how much you study, no matter how much you know, the side of your brain that has the smarts won't necessarily help you in making art.

Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid.

We know under Nebraska there is an underground aquifer that is probably underneath the whole state, but what form does it take? I kind of want to focus on that, for almost political means, because we keep digging more wells. We're not replenishing, and we're having a crisis in water around the world. But how do you visualize it? I don't know, so I know what I want to study.

We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother.

My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground.

I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them.