Frank Gehry

I also thought of fish as being on Earth 300 million years before man.

And when my brethren started to

regurgitate the past in the postmodern movement, as it was called.

The past they were regurgitating was anthropomorphic.

And I said, well, if you're going to go back, you might as well go back 300 million years before man to fish.

And, you know, it was a sort of a sarcastic remark and kind of I didn't even realize what I was talking about when I said it.

And I started drawing.

Whenever I saw one of those postmodern buildings, I would angrily sketch in my book pictures of fish.

And I made a 35-foot wooden fish for the fashion house in Italy for an exhibit.

And the 35-foot wooden fish was very kitsch and very embarrassing looking object.

But when you stood beside it,

It had the same character that the Shiva dancing figure.

You turned away and looked, and you thought it moved.

And so quite accidentally, I found myself into a language that I was really looking to find.

And like everything else, it happens by accident.

That expressed movement.

Well, I then made shapes.

I started to say, what could I do to this wooden fish that would make it less embarrassing as a piece of kitsch?

And I cut off the tail and I cut off the head and I cut off the fins and I started to abstract it.

And I made a shape, an abstracted, let's call it a fillet of fish, that I used in a show, an exhibit I did at the Walker Art Museum.