"I was struck by the combination of materials used – the wood combined with some of the tiling, and gridded meshed columns…with vines trailing up.  I was just kind of taking in everything that my first impressions were giving me, along with the fact that EDENS was looking for somebody [with] very broad, very open parameters…something very upbeat, lively.  I appreciated the fact that they weren’t requesting something so specific – it was open to 3D work as well – but for me as a painter, my response, my considerations for the proposal shifted to my area of expertise." - Paul Yanko for Jasper Magazine, 2016