I think I've always had an activist stance, yet at the same time, the other side of me - and this is where some people just don't get it, or they'd prefer it if the work was a lot uglier, a lot louder - I have this personality where I just want to put something out that's a fact and then let you interpret it. It's almost as if you might barely notice it, you might walk right by it, but you have to pay attention.

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.

How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now.

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

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 like to think of my work as creating a private conversation with each person, no matter how public each work is and no matter how many people are present

Every memorial in its time has a different goal.