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.

To fly, we must have resistance.

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.

I begin by imagining an artwork verbally. I try to describe in writing what the project is, what it is trying to do. I need to understand the artwork without giving it a specific materiality or solid form.

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 only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.

I like to think of my work as creating a private conversation with each person, no matter how public each work is and no matter how many people are present