"The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost."
-Maya Lin
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"The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.“
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"It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level."
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"I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up."
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"I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them."
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"You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition."
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"I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me."
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