Kit Williams
Kit Williams
Christopher 'Kit' Williamsis an English artist, illustrator and author best known for his 1979 book Masquerade, a pictorial storybook which contains clues to the location of a goldenjewelled hare created by Williams and then buried "somewhere in Britain"...
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beautiful art ambition
You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art.
dog moon rabbits
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.
dog rabbits painting
The dog, the rabbit and the hoop all feature in the painting, and take the place of the orrery.
submit
The hoop is there to remind us not to jump through it, not to submit to someone else's control.
dog circles looks
If you look closely you can see that they are all interconnected, symbolic of a never-ending circle in which it is simply impossible for the dog to catch the rabbit.
later-in-life calling distraction
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.
feet way would-be
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.
hands careers faces
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.
years people done
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.
writing ideas bored
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.
afternoon wednesday practicals
Practical! On Wednesday afternoons I could be practically anything. What's up?
advertising ancient contemporary
The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.
rabbits significant form
The rabbit is significant in that the handle on the original South Pointing Chariot was carved in the form of a rabbit. Because the handle extended out front it meant that wherever the rabbit went the chariot had to follow.
city developed generate happened help investing itself pay project provided sales sat site time worked
This thing would pay for itself to the city over time. This will generate new sales tax. I don't think anything would have happened on that site. It would have sat there and decayed without the help the city has provided through this redevelopment district. If the project would have worked without the city investing $3 million, then that site would have been developed a long time ago.