“The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.”
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I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.
I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.
My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground.
I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was.