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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... →
As a kid, I lived in a fantasy world. I used to believe ants could talk. Not once did they say thank you.
I became obsessed with making more and more tiny things. I think I was trying to find a way of compensating for my embarrassment at having learning... →
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... →
I was told I would become nothing. Now I am showing people how big nothing is.
There are times when I've inhaled my work. There are artworks still inside of me.
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.
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... →
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... →
Flying helicopters is what I do for fun.
I always say that failure was my friend. I learned nothing at school, so I just lived in my own world.
I'm just honoring my mother's words. She always told me, 'The smaller your work, the bigger your name will become.'
I'm like a mad professor, but without the spiky hair.