If somebody gives me a chance to do something, I am going to use that space, that time, that light, that whatever it is and try and work with it.

I don't have a dream project. I don't really think in those terms, to tell you the truth.

I always took photographs. I photographed a lot of trees, by the way, which is another image I used often in my work, the tree image.

Whatever came out came out. That was it. That's what you live with. If you don't like it, that's your problem.

I wanted my style to be very recognizable.

The only problems I sometimes have is if I ask for a piece for a group show, if I ask for a piece - I would like to put it into a show, sometimes the collectors get possessive about it and don't want to let something happen. Say you get full credit, you know. You give them your name, the catalog and it always enhances the value of the piece, you know, the more shows it is in, blah, blah, blah.

Teaching I realized took up a lot of my time. I was a kind of a teacher that spent time with students, spoke to them after class, tried to help them out. I'd talk with them personally about their work and try to get out of them what they were thinking about, forcing them to thinking seriously and not just falling back on all the ideas that they had picked up someplace. And so I took my job teaching very seriously and that - as a result, it took up a lot of time.