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.

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

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

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.

If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light.

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.

I saw the Vietnam Veterans Memorial not as an object placed into the earth but as a cut in the earth that has then been polished, like a geode. Interest in the land and concern about how we are polluting the air and water of the planet are what make me want to travel back in geologic time-to witness the shaping of the earth before man.