Modernism was influenced by what they call a primativist ethic.
All kinds of performance practices have a certain register of power or solemnity. 
I have the willingness to think fully about where opportunities are and where they live.
I believe that beauty is a basic service. 
Everything is raw material to me. Land is raw material ... I take one form and transform it into other forms.
I actually no longer use 'art' as the framing device. I think I'm just kind of practicing things, practicing life, practicing creation.
I think I'm passionately allowing myself to be influenced by the things that are around me.
I want to spend my time between the creation of ideas and the creation of things. 
It's not really about the material. It's about our capacity to shape things. 