What I think museums do very well is that they say to a public, "We have some stuff that's worth looking at."

Modernism was influenced by what they call a primativist ethic.

Sometimes the creating that we do is creating a platform that allows other creative people to pitch in.

What I think museums do very well is that they say to a public, "We have some stuff that's worth looking at."

It's really exciting to know that people want to use the house as a house and want to live there although it hasn't been a used, occupied space in 50 or 60 years.

I think I'm a full-time artist, a full-time urban planner, and a full-time preacher with an aspiration of no longer needing any of those titles. Rather, I'm trying to do what for some seems a very messy work or a complicated work.

I'm not a preacher, but I preach. I'm not a Buddhist, but I chant. I'm not race theorist, but I have questions and ponderances around the complexities of race and class and culture wherever I am.