I was in analysis and I told my analyst I wanted to be the best sculptor in the world and he said, 'Richard, calm down.'

I think this, I think basically I'm not interested in people following my work or making work like my work.

I was in analysis and I told my analyst I wanted to be the best sculptor in the world and he said, 'Richard, calm down.'

Art for the most part, is about concentration, solitude and determination. It's really not about other people's needs and assumptions. I'm not interested in the notion that art serves something. Art is useless, not useful.

But I'll try to immerse myself in as many of the formal characteristics of site as possible in the landscape.

Time and movement became really crucial to how I deal with what I deal with - not only sight and boundary, but how one walks through a piece, and what one feels and registers in terms of one's own body in relation to another body.

The thing about coming back to the Bay Area, it's like coming home for me.