[3][1] He has also worked as a gold miner and now owns a trailer park in Enumclaw, Washington.
[2] According to Carter, the universe is composed of what he calls "circlons", ring-like structures like "atomic LEGO blocks, interlocking rings that snap together to form all the elements".
[3] He derived his theories from experiments involving smoke rings, which he sees as forming analogies for the workings of circlons.
[1] His theories and experiments have no significant scientific standing but have been said to resemble those of 19th-century scientists Lord Kelvin and Peter Guthrie Tait.
[3] Another exhibition on his work opened at the Institute For Figuring gallery in Los Angeles in December 2011.