Some psychiatrist told me I was interested in sculpture because I dealt in flat surfaces and needed something with dimension.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The size thing is not some gimmick or attention-getting trick but a genuine undercurrent of the work. Frank Gehry for instance likes to imagine his buildings as sculptures. I like to imagine my sculptures as architectural.
I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it is to do with form.
I like to think of myself as kind of a sculptor, only I sculpt people.
Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.
Take a relief. You draw it, you carve it out. Later you build it up from a flat surface. There is no other way to do a sculpture - you either add or you subtract.
Work can take on a new dimension if you know something about the artist.
Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space.
I am finally getting the chance to build large structures and break preconceptions that my designs are just sculptures for people to be in. But my work always comes down to the human scale.
Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.
I'm not a sculptor; I'm a hard-edged model maker. You give me a drawing, you give me a prop to replicate, you give me a crane, scaffolding, parts from 'Star Wars' - especially parts from 'Star Wars' - I can do this stuff all day long. It's exactly how I made my living for 15 years.