“In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.”
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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.
The role of art in society differs for every artist.
When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.
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.