I do think the smaller-scale studio works have that incredible love of data crunching, whereas I would say the large-scale earthworks tend to be much more stripped-down. With the mappings, as connected as they are to a much more analytical idea, what's a map? And can I make a map about time? I think the first time was Hurricane Sandy, the flood plane; a moment in time, but indelibly marked on any of us who were in the city. Mapping time is something that I'm really interested in.

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.

To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.

I cannot force a design; I do not see this process as being under my conscious control.

It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it.

To fly, we must have resistance.

I always say I'm no different than a 19th-century landscape painter, it's just that we have these incredible tools to look at the Earth and look at the world around us differently.