World's smallest works of art .. Truely amazing!!!
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Willard Wigan
His 2005 exhibition is currently on display in Harvey Nichols, Manchester ..
He's fairly well known in England but for those who haven't heard of him here's a few of his sculptures. His work is unbelievable.
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Santa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Elephant on a pin head
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'The Thinker' on a pin head . . . . . . . . . . .Statue of Liberty in the eye of a needle
Willard began his micro sculptures at the age of five: "I remember an anthill in my back garden was destroyed and I decided to make houses for the ants. Then I moved on to chairs for them."
He makes his micro sculptures out of matchsticks and cocktail sticks and uses a tiny surgical scalpel to make miniscule cuts.
Some are many times smaller than the fullstop at the end of this sentence. Many are even smaller still, with some being completely invisible to the naked eye.
He works in total solitude at a quiet retreat in Jersey mainly at night when there is a greater sense of peace in the world and less static electricity to interfere with the immeasurable precision and tolerances required to create the pieces.
He uses a powerful microscope which can magnify what he is working on by 250 times what can be seen with the naked eye. When they go on display they also have to be viewed through powerful microscopes.
Willard's website: http://www.willard-wigan.com
Willard Wigan
His 2005 exhibition is currently on display in Harvey Nichols, Manchester ..
He's fairly well known in England but for those who haven't heard of him here's a few of his sculptures. His work is unbelievable.
. . . . . .Santa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Elephant on a pin head
. . . . . .'The Thinker' on a pin head . . . . . . . . . . .Statue of Liberty in the eye of a needle
Willard began his micro sculptures at the age of five: "I remember an anthill in my back garden was destroyed and I decided to make houses for the ants. Then I moved on to chairs for them."
He makes his micro sculptures out of matchsticks and cocktail sticks and uses a tiny surgical scalpel to make miniscule cuts.
Some are many times smaller than the fullstop at the end of this sentence. Many are even smaller still, with some being completely invisible to the naked eye.
He works in total solitude at a quiet retreat in Jersey mainly at night when there is a greater sense of peace in the world and less static electricity to interfere with the immeasurable precision and tolerances required to create the pieces.
He uses a powerful microscope which can magnify what he is working on by 250 times what can be seen with the naked eye. When they go on display they also have to be viewed through powerful microscopes.
Willard's website: http://www.willard-wigan.com
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that IS amazing!
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Oh my, they dropped the leash.
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Those are some amazing art. And I agree the 'Cassius Clay' art is pretty damn cool.
Great post!
Thanks for sharing ...
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