Thanks - he does some mighty fine work. He jokes that I got into engineering because I liked the design aspects of his sculpture but I wanted to get paid for it.
The reality is that what he enjoys most about his art is the problem-solving (coming up with a new technique to achieve something different), and it was that the problem-solving aspect and the mechanical nature of many of his pieces (especially the stuff he was doing when I was younger, since his current work has picked up a more organic nature) that led me to engineering.