Kit Williams

Having designed and built several clocks during my career it suddenly occurred to me that when you look at the face of a clock both hands have the same center.

You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art.

The dog and the rabbit are telling us not to chase unattainable material goals.

The dog, the rabbit and the hoop all feature in the painting, and take the place of the orrery.

Newton, of course, was the inventor of differential calculus so his place in the tale is quite special.

I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with that idea and wrote a scientific fairy tale instead.

I started by looking at what others had done before me. You see, over the years there have been attempts by many different people to reconstruct the chariot.

He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles.

She's not happy about the life she is living but to jump through the hoop would mean to succumb to death.

The chariot was purchased by a private collector who took it home to New York. I take pleasure in knowing that it was built to last for at least a thousand years.

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 made every single piece myself, each individual component, so it was quite time consuming.