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.

I think I needed to really move past my first public work as memorialist, and be equally balanced. It's a bit unusual, to be working between the architecture, the art, and what I would say is a synthesis, the memorials - they're problem solving, but it's very symbolic. You get this triangle; I need to be balanced with those three. They're all equally a part of who I am. I love how different they are, and yet they're coming out the same thing, whatever it is.

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.

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

My goal is to strip things down so that you need just the right amount of words or shape to convey what you need to convey. I like editing. I like it very tight.

It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level.

I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts.