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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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.
dog rabbits painting
The dog, the rabbit and the hoop all feature in the painting, and take the place of the orrery.
dog goal unattainable
The dog and the rabbit are telling us not to chase unattainable material goals.
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.
book character keys
In the fairy tale the painting represents the here and now. The book is actually divided into five sections, through which the key character, the muse, leads us.
men hands arms
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.
new-york home years
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.
submit
The hoop is there to remind us not to jump through it, not to submit to someone else's control.
beautiful art ambition
You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art.
intuition want needs
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.
beautiful night land
Once upon a perfect night, unclouded and still, there came the face of a pale and beautiful lady. The tresses of her hair reached out to make the constellations, and the dewy vapours of her gown fell soft upon the land.