SLHL: Please share an experience that was a major influence on your career decision.
Abraham: I was a junior in college, visiting the National Gallery in D.C. I was in the great sculpture hall, standing in front of two works by 19th-century French artist Jean Baptiste Carpeaux. I was captivated by the way he had turned stone into flesh. That was the moment when I knew I wanted to spend my life trying to make artwork like that.

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