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“I grew up on the Magoon Ranch, outside Lusk, Wyoming, originally homesteaded by my grandfather in 1886. When I was four years old an old sheepherder, by the name of John the Baptist, showed me incredible chains that he carved out of willow. As soon as I saw them I wanted to make them but it would be six or seven more years before I began whittling with a knife and later, building race cars with hollow eggs and plastic model car parts. Around the age of 12, I began building ships in bottles, eventually discovering a technique for connecting the separate pieces by embedding magnets in the wood. This led to building spaceships in bottles and later, carved wooden robots inhabiting chemistry flasks.