Words have very potent meanings and people read them and they react to them personally. They are very suggestive in terms of your life and things like that.

The notion of a thing, materiality, was something that I think was something very in peoples' minds when they were dealing with earth and metal and different kinds of metals and the interaction of different sorts of material.

Words have very potent meanings and people read them and they react to them personally. They are very suggestive in terms of your life and things like that.

I have been in competitions for commissions. I've won most and lost some. Mostly, I've won.

Heidegger wrote a book called Was Ist Das Ding - What Is a Thing? which was kind of interesting and influential to me, as a matter of fact. It's a small paperback, which I read. It's about the nature of thingness; what is it? It's a very penetrating analysis of that, and I think a rather influential book. I know other artists who have read it and come up with it.

I never stop thinking about what I have to do. Let's put it that way. The only thing that takes me out of that is probably a film. I watch a lot of movies.

I think I feel much more at home in studio.