I think I'm passionately allowing myself to be influenced by the things that are around me.

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.

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 have the willingness to think fully about where opportunities are and where they live.

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

I believe that beauty is a basic service.

The fact that the work is affirmed by the Museum of Contemporary Art I think sends continued signals that this is worth paying attention to, looking at, and understanding.