The concept had to be very simple from a graphics design perspective.

What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise there are only two dimensions. Otherwise you live with your face squashed up against a wall, everything a huge foreground, of details, close-ups, hairs, the weave of the bedsheet, the molecules of the face. Your own skin like a map, a diagram of futility, criscrossed with tiny roads that lead nowhere. Otherwise you live in the moment. Which is not where I want to be.

Do we have the perfect price design standing here today? Probably not. Let's build in some carrots as well as some sticks that would send stronger signals about conservation. You might see those changes start to come in in 2007.

From our perspective, it was going to be built, whether it was Hines or if we had to find somebody else. But anyone who has any exposure to real estate must know that if Hines is involved with a deal, it's going to happen.

We have been fortunate to have so noted a poet as a resident of our state. We mourn this great loss to our community.

One of the artists lives in Utah, though the Mint will not disclose the name of this artist until the final design has been approved.