“Words will follow your path through the garden, on the walkways, benches and walls.  Yet unlike a book, the way in which you read the poem is multidirectional.”

“But all of the artworks have a sense of fluidity and movement — just as I see the earth as existing in a non-static, fluid state.”

“It was the insertion of a barely perceptible ordering of the natural environment.”

“Chinese scholars’ rocks

‘Most served as vehicles for contemplation …
Like landscape paintings,
the rocks represented a microcosm of the universe
on which the scholar
could meditate within the confines of the studio.’”

“…an interface between the world of the living and the world of the dead.”

“I never looked at the memorial as a wall, an object, but as an edge to the earth, an opened side.”

“I had a simple impulse to cut into the earth.”

“What I come to do
is partial, partially kept.”

“Time becomes the object of the works; the form dematerializes, becoming pure surface as you approach it, so that the text, the information, becomes the object.”

If you never do anything for anyone else
you are spared the tragedy of human relation-

ships.