"My need to flee from the madness of the 20th, required a kind of isolation and withdrawal that's made me completely forget that there are others out there not working in middle management. I've built "Know Where To Go" (taken from 'You Never Give Me Your Money', Abbey Road) in almost total seclusion."

"My truck sits right in the heart of an industrial suburb. I'm surrounded by a huge junk-yard (a sign scrapyard, actually) and am constantly being invaded by 30 foot Paul Hogans selling beer, or McDonalds arches blown down by the wind ... ad infinitum. I get free rent, free electricity free water and so-forth ... and complete security. In terms of seclusion, I'm more isolated than if I were parked on the Tundra. In 13 years, not a single person has entered my compound or surprised me. All I have to do is jump the back fence and I'm smack into the parking lot of a 7-11. A very strange case of everything being inverted. People keep offering me lakeside frontage with fantastic views ... and I just wince at the thought of my own rock-n-roll (as loud as you want it) junkyard transformed into loons, lapping waters and noisy neighbors."

A rigid steel framework was custom welded to the truck's frame after the fire truck body was removed. This is the only part of the project that Damien contracted out to someone else.

"The whole thing was designed right down to the quarter inch before I welded the first piece together."

"I built a detailed scale model of Know-where-to-go, at about the same time I put my CAD blueprints together. I didn't actually buy the firetruck until the model was finished, and not surprisingly, the final finished (?) real-thing is almost identical to the model, with a few less windows. Even the pillows are pretty much tit for tat."

"Since I built the thing 80km from where I lived, I did-in-fact live in it while I was building it. Easy to talk about now, but for the first two years I was sleeping on a 4X8 sheet of plywood in my sleeping bag in 25 below temperatures, powered by a 50m lawnmower extension cord ... running my electric blanket at night, power tools during the day."