If you don't remember history accurately, how can you learn?

My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.

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.

We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother.

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.

To fly we have to have resistance.

To fly, we must have resistance.