Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice.

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.

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

war is not just a victory or loss ... People die.

Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice.

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.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.