As I was working I noticed that the way I designed the differential gearing actually created a spare drive that sat directly below the emperor’s feet, or where they would be if he were to sit in the chariot.

The original item looked like a little hand cart with the figure of a man mounted on a platform between the wheels. The man’s outstretched arm always pointed south.

If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don’t need and things we can’t have.

I think most artists find it difficult to part with their work but it’s the parting that keeps us alive and keeps us working. In the case of the chariot, although it’s been sold I actually still have it, just in another form.

Practical! On Wednesday afternoons I could be practically anything. What’s up?

In practical terms the South Pointing Chariot was a simple direction finder. It could have been made to point in any direction – north, south, east or west.

The hoop is there to remind us not to jump through it, not to submit to someone else’s control.

and decide that you cant spend more to collect it than youre going to collect.

The city had probably made some inadvertent technical mistakes in computing overtime, ... The city had paid firefighters about what the Fair Labor Standards Act would have mandated, but we paid EMT pay, Hazmat pay and longevity pay as a specific amount every pay period rather than including it as a pay component for overtime pay computation.

It inspired all sorts of whims and fancies that I ultimately wove into a fairy tale complete with muse, the earth, the moon, some famous inventors, a dog and a rabbit.