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.

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

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

If you don't remember history accurately, how can you learn?

I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was.

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.

It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.