To Fly We Have To Have Resistance.

I Think I Needed To Really Move Past My First Public Work As Memorialist, And Be Equally Balanced. It's A Bit Unusual, To Be Working Between The Architecture, The Art, And What I Would Say Is A Synthesis, The Memorials - They're Problem Solving, But It's Very Symbolic. You Get This Triangle; I Need To Be Balanced With Those Three. They're All Equally A Part Of Who I Am. I Love How Different They Are, And Yet They're Coming Out The Same Thing, Whatever It Is.

Sometimes You Have To Stop Thinking. Sometimes You Shut Down Completely. I Think That's True In Any Creative Field.

To Fly, We Have To Have Resistance. It's All About Turbulence. Reacting To Images Of Wave Patterns In Fluid Motion.

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.

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.