When I was a kid, I had trouble at school because of my learning disabilities. Carving is my body compensating for the lack of other skills.

I became obsessed with making more and more tiny things. I think I was trying to find a way of compensating for my embarrassment at having learning difficulties: people had made me feel small so I wanted to show them how significant 'small' could be.

I'm like a mad professor, but without the spiky hair.

My teacher said my brain was the size of a pea. He made my life miserable by singling me out in the classroom as a failure.

People find it very, very difficult to believe what I've done. Scientists have seen my work and they can't explain it. Even nano-scientists have seen it and been totally shocked. But if any man on Earth wants to challenge me, I'm ready. Bring it on.

The microscopic world became my obsession.

When I was a kid, I had trouble at school because of my learning disabilities. Carving is my body compensating for the lack of other skills.