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

Most of what you see in architecture are watered-down ideas of sculptors who have come before.

I started working for Bethlehem Steel when I was about 16 during the summers.

What interests me is the opportunity for all of us to become something different from what we are, by constructing spaces that contribute something to the experience of who we are.

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.

The viewer becomes aware of himself and of his movement through the plaza. As he moves, the sculpture changes. Contraction and expansion of the sculpture result from the viewer's movement. Step by step the perception not only of the sculpture but of the entire environment changes.

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