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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.