Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.

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.

My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground.

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.

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.

Every memorial in its time has a different goal.

To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.