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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attorneys dollars hundred thousands
hundred of thousands of dollars in attorneys fees.
bit collected fairly large quite several sure
I'm not sure why there's that much. It could be because we sped up the process. We had several that were fairly large payments, so we collected quite a bit of money.
absolutely cannot citizens city protect saying sued
I am not saying that Fayetteville could not be sued if this conditional use is denied. However, I cannot concede that the city and its citizens have absolutely no right to protect single-family residential neighborhoods if a use is deemed incompatible.
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.
advertising ancient contemporary
The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.
simple west east
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.
afternoon wednesday practicals
Practical! On Wednesday afternoons I could be practically anything. What's up?
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.
thinking artist alive
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.