It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public.

I wanted to create a hill indoors. This is the only imaginary landscape [in the exhibit].

We, as a species, never understood how we have changed [the environment].

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 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.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.