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As a kid, I lived in a fantasy world. I used to believe ants could talk. Not once did they say thank you.

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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 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.

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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.

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The microscopic world became my obsession.

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I'm like a mad professor, but without the spiky hair.

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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.

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I'm just honoring my mother's words. She always told me, 'The smaller your work, the bigger your name will become.'

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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.

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Flying helicopters is what I do for fun.

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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 difficulties: people had made me feel small so I wanted to show them how significant 'small' could be.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Sculptor

Born: Unknown

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