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How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It’s more evident now.
It’s funny, as you live through something you’re not aware of it.
To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.
When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they’ be censored. We were a very insular little family.
If we can’t face death, we’ll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light.
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 try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That’s art to me.
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.
In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it’s done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.