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I dug things up. I was curious. I liked to draw what I found.

One of the workshop participants had shown me a single 8 X 10 photograph of a power plant where he actually was the general manager of this power cooperative. It was quite magical to me.

There are some aspects of the diagram that I wish I had expressed a little more clearly.

I remembered seeing it and it was this metallic turbine and I thought it was beautiful. I had never been in a power plant before, but I felt, without being overly dramatic, compelled to make photographs of this for myself.

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

In my mind I needed a symbol of today's technology, and I realized that what I wanted to photograph was the Space Shuttle. And so that's where Places of Power came into being.

It became clear to me that I had to push it toward a more representational way of drawing.

I guess I didn't enjoy drawing very much. It was like homework.

I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint.