How would you describe your style? I guess it’s a sort of compulsively-off-loading-the-ceaseless-accumulation-of-images-piling-up-in-the-head kind of style, or something.

Do you remember the first thing you made? I did a serious amount of drawing in my Dad’s medical textbooks. “Drawing” might be too strong a word.

Before I started making I… Would it be too self-aggrandizing to finish that sentence with “I was in a womb”? Would using the word “self-aggrandizing” be too self-aggrandizing?

If I weren’t a maker I’d be... I’d be a person who has to ride a modest bike around the Metropolitan Museum of Art each day, look at every single object very closely and think a lot about them as I do.

Favorite quote or words to live by: These things seem to pop up nearly every day when one has kids. And I continually change course accordingly.

If I could run away I’d go… … I’d go around the European Continent, and then a few others, and then come back.

If you could collaborate with one person dead or alive who would it be? Isaac Newton comes to mind, but so does Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (sorry about the full name thing, but it’s such a nice name); I imagine Euclid would have been a Hell of an interesting guy to brainstorm with.

What would be on your maker’s soundtrack? A whole lot of Beethoven and then a bunch of people talking about things in detail.

If you could learn a new skill what would it be? Speaking French, better.

What’s your favorite movie? 2001: A Space Odyssey

What is your perfect day? Waking up and not sitting down until going to sleep.

Last book you read? Infinite Jest, again

What would your last meal be? A very, very, very long one. With a good deal of excellent beer.

Favorite scent? Gino’s Pizzeria on 74th Street and 5th Avenue in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.

Favorite flower or tree? Cold Hardy Orange: spectacular thorns, the most delicate white flowers, and absolutely killer-smelling, darling-looking little fruits. Then again, Sequoias are awfully nice.

Favorite artist? They’re out there somewhere.

What is the most challenging project you have worked on? Why? Installing a twenty foot steel and driftwood mobile high up in a glass atrium at a Barney’s in Sclottsdale whilst balancing on a fully-extended cherry-picker that I didn’t know how to operate,

Who’s the most famous person you’ve ever met? Will Smith hugged me once, thinking I was someone else.

What was the last gift you gave someone? A carved almond.

Where did you grow up? Brooklyn, New York

What are you most thankful for? My senses, I guess. Without those I couldn’t enjoy my family and the rest of the world.

To see more of Rodger’s work visit, www.rodgerstevens.com or his Instagram @rodger.stevens.