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.

Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.

To fly, we have to have resistance. It's all about turbulence. Reacting to images of wave patterns in fluid motion.

For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn.

You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it.

Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we can make models of it, but it can only be experienced as a complete whole.

It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public.