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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. "
Say
World
You
" 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. "
Escape
World
Home
" 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. "
School
Pain
World
" Flying helicopters is what I do for fun. "
Helicopters
Flying
Fun
" I always say that failure was my friend. I learned nothing at school, so I just lived in my own world. "
Say
Failure
Friend
" 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. "
People
Small
Think
" 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. "
Rich
Heaven
Eye
" I'm just honoring my mother's words. She always told me, 'The smaller your work, the bigger your name will become.' "
Words
She
Name
" I'm like a mad professor, but without the spiky hair. "
Professor
Without
Mad
" 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. "
Career
Live
Me
" I was told I would become nothing. Now I am showing people how big nothing is. "
Now
People
Nothing
" 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. "
My Life
Failure
Brain
" My work knocks people out; you've not seen the best of me yet. "
Seen
Me
People
" 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. "
Work
People
Man
" People often swear the first time they see my work. I like that. "
Time
First Time
People
" The microscopic world became my obsession. "
World
Became
Microscopic
" There are times when I've inhaled my work. There are artworks still inside of me. "
Inside
Times
Still
" There is a child in all of us. "
Child
Us
" Those that don't believe how small my work is should just come along and see it for themselves. "
Along
Work
Small
" We didn't have money for toys, so I made my own. "
Own
Made
Money
" 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. "
History
Black
Going
" 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. "
School
Learning
Body
" 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. "
You
Control
Body
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