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

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.

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 deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was.

The role of art in society differs for every artist.

I didn't have anyone to play with so I made up my own world.

I'm as much interested in the form-making as well as getting you to think about what we're doing to the world around us.