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.

I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.

We know under Nebraska there is an underground aquifer that is probably underneath the whole state, but what form does it take? I kind of want to focus on that, for almost political means, because we keep digging more wells. We're not replenishing, and we're having a crisis in water around the world. But how do you visualize it? I don't know, so I know what I want to study.

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.

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

If we forget what used to be, then we’ve lost an ability to really be sensitive to our surroundings.

Our lives are given meaning by our actions-accomplishments made while we are "here" that extend beyond our own time.