All My Work Is Much More Peaceful

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.

Some Of Your Teachers Are Actually Closer In Age To You Than You Think.

I Always Give The Analogy Of The Earth At Night Picture, Of 7.3 Billion Of Us, Right? And Everyone Says, "well, That's Population." Well, If You Took The Entire World's Population And You Lived At The Density Of Manhattan Proper - Not A Bad Place To Live - How Much Space Do 7.3 Billion People Take Up? The State Of Colorado. At Which Point I End My Lectures, Because I Want You To Be Thinking ... Is This Really A Question Of Population, Or Is This A Question Of Land Use And Resource Consumption? And Let's Face It, The Top 1.3 Billion Of Us Are Doing All The Damage. Sorry.

We Know Under Nebraska There Is An Underground Aquifer That Is Probably Underneath The Whole State, But What Form Does It Take? I Kind Of Want To Focus On That, For Almost Political Means, Because We Keep Digging More Wells. We're Not Replenishing, And We're Having A Crisis In Water Around The World. But How Do You Visualize It? I Don't Know, So I Know What I Want To Study.