You Have To Let The Viewers Come

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.

I Though About What Death Is, What A Loss Is. A Sharp Pain That Lessens With Time, But Can Never Quite Heal Over. A Scar. The Idea Occurred To Me There On The Site. Take A Knife And Cut Open The Earth, And With Time The Grass Would Heal It. As If You Cut Open The Rock And Polished It.

When I Was Very Little, We Would Get Letters From China, In Chinese, And They' Be Censored. We Were A Very Insular Little Family.

My Parents Are Both College Professors, And It Made Me Want To Question Authority, Standards And Traditions.

Our Parents Decided Not To Teach Us Chinese. It Was An Era When They Felt We Would Be Better Off If We Didn't Have That Complication.