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.

OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me.

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.

The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.

You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist. I make things.

An artist fights to retain the integrity of a work so that it remains a strong, clear vision. Art is and should be the act of an individual willing to say something new, something not quite familiar.