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There's been a few moments

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that were transcendent.

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And one of them was in New Mexico.

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I was in my 20s.

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I had hiked out to the edge of this cliff,

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and it was many hundreds of feet
down to the valley,

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and there was an incredible
wind blowing up this cliff.

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I put my feet on the edge of this cliff,
and I leaned into the wind,

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and I let the wind hold me up.

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So there was like,
nothing supporting me except for the wind.

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And it was just like this release into

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just trust in nature.

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And I think it began me
thinking about my own

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sort of intimate relationship to the wind

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and to the atmosphere.

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It was a very profound experience.

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Scientists knew about global warming

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and had been sounding
the alarm for 42 years.

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So it makes you wonder if,

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like the realm of thought and words,

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is not as effective as going deeper.

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I've tried to create some artworks

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that awaken a sense of awe

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towards the planet.

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To really shift people's

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whole relationship to nature,

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like a love relationship with it.

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What we’re mocking up on Tuesday
actually relates to a

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design of National Weather Museum,

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but the whole building, the idea is
to make it look like a thunderstorm

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and to have a skin that's alive,

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like the surface of a thunderstorm.

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So the whole building
will undulate like a cloud.

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Imagine this whole skin of this building,

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surrounded
by literally millions of small elements,

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trying to capture the thinness
of the atmosphere

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on an architectural scale.

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A lot of my work is experimenting

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with these elements.

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Earth, air, fire and water
and kind of seeing what they want to do,

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what's interesting
in their own internal dynamics.

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So like water,
I've done a number of vortex sculptures.

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It's not just water, it's a vortex.

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It's this recurring pattern
that, that water likes

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to, to make.

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You know, I've done a lot of sculptures
using fog and mist

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to kind of make wind visible.

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And when you mix tiny little droplets

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of water and air,
it's different than air by itself.

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And it's different than water by itself.

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It's a cloud.

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And clouds have their own beautiful,
interesting pattern

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formation dynamics to them.

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So that's been a huge interest of mine.

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I never get bored looking at the sky.

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I never get bored looking at clouds and,

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you know, tried to create some artworks
that have a little bit of that,

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I don't know, constant changeability
and just the way they capture

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light and shadow and, and,
and are so responsive too.

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Responsive to heat
and and the wind and the sun and gravity.

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A lot of my work

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ends up being like in kind of brutal urban
settings,

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you know, concrete places for parking
thousands of cars.

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Trying to take that facade
and turn it into,

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like a window into the invisible.

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So for someone who's
just parking their car in this garage

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gets to have a glimpse
of the miraculousness of the world.

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The big idea behind

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all of it is just to try to awaken

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a sense of kindness towards the planet.

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People's relationship
like to the air, to the atmosphere,

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to water, to to the plants.

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A deep appreciation

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like without all the words,

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that could be the thing that allows

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the human species to endure,
for lack of a better way of saying it.