2 min readSep 24, 2022
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- When you work at a microscopic level, you have to control every part of your body movement — your fingertips, your joints, the pulse in your fingers.
- I’m like a mad professor, but without the spiky hair.
- Those that don’t believe how small my work is should just come along and see it for themselves.
- My work knocks people out; you’ve not seen the best of me yet.
- I always say that failure was my friend. I learned nothing at school, so I just lived in my own world.
- When I first heard that Barack Obama was going to be the first black president, I wanted to do the smallest, biggest tribute in history.
- People find it very, very difficult to believe what I’ve done. Scientists have seen my work and they can’t explain it. Even nano-scientists have seen it and been totally shocked. But if any man on Earth wants to challenge me, I’m ready. Bring it on.
- At school I’d want to be so small that nobody could see me, and so my work depicts and reflects me — what it felt like to grow up in a world of pain.
- The microscopic world became my obsession.
- We didn’t have money for toys, so I made my own.
- As a kid, I lived in a fantasy world. I used to believe ants could talk. Not once did they say thank you.
- There is a child in all of us.
- I was told I would become nothing. Now I am showing people how big nothing is.
- When I was a kid, I had trouble at school because of my learning disabilities. Carving is my body compensating for the lack of other skills.
- My teacher said my brain was the size of a pea. He made my life miserable by singling me out in the classroom as a failure.
- I heard someone say that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich man to get into heaven. I decided to sculpt camels in a needle.
- There are times when I’ve inhaled my work. There are artworks still inside of me.
- I started making houses for ants because I thought they needed somewhere to live. Then I made them shoes and hats. It was a fantasy world I escaped to where my dyslexia didn’t hold me back and my teachers couldn’t criticize me. That’s how my career as a micro-sculptor began.
- People often swear the first time they see my work. I like that.
- At home, when the heating pipes made noises, I imagined a tiny person was in there skipping with a rope. The fantasy world of tiny things became my escape.