“Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.”
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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.
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.
I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them.
Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist.