Metal, taken back in time.

6“So it’s two-dimensional on the wall, but as you get close it pops into three, you see, because it’s actually physically deep.”

9“And if you take a basic material and you work it, you’re actually imparting your chi into that material.”

12“My mother saw it in me when I was a kid, so she went and got me, instead of toys, she got me nuts and bolts, you know? So I could put them together and take them apart, because I’ve always been fascinated with process.”

13“No, I just see things that pop into 2D. A lot of them are 2D because I think in 2D.”

14“My desire is to create something that’s never created before.”

15“I — when you buy the material it’s very neat and clean and manufactured, and then I have to take it out of its manufactured shape by heating it up and hammering it.”

16“One day when the whole world collapses, when the whole culture collapses, and we go back to Stone Age, I’d be king again.”

17“The form is new, the shape is new, I mean, these lines are perfect, but the material is old. What happened here?”

18“I felt like I was born in the wrong century. And I’ve always rejected progress and technology. I mean, I use it and I’m fascinated by it, but it always moved too fast for me.”