Willard Wigan is the creator of the world’s smallest sculptures.
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Working between heartbeats to avoid hand tremors, it takes months for him to complete one.
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“You have to control the whole nervous system, you have to work between the heartbeat – the pulse of your finger can destroy the work,” he said.
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Wigan uses a tiny surgical blade to carve microscopic figures out of rice, and fragments of grains of sand and sugar, which are then mounted on pin tips, pin heads, nails, matchsticks, anything particularly thin and small.
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To paint his creations, he uses a hair plucked from a dead fly (the fly has to have died from natural causes, as he refuses to kill them for the sake of his art).
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Check his website: http://www.willard-wigan.com/
[link]Working between heartbeats to avoid hand tremors, it takes months for him to complete one.
[link]“You have to control the whole nervous system, you have to work between the heartbeat – the pulse of your finger can destroy the work,” he said.
[link]Wigan uses a tiny surgical blade to carve microscopic figures out of rice, and fragments of grains of sand and sugar, which are then mounted on pin tips, pin heads, nails, matchsticks, anything particularly thin and small.
[link]To paint his creations, he uses a hair plucked from a dead fly (the fly has to have died from natural causes, as he refuses to kill them for the sake of his art).
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[link]Check his website: http://www.willard-wigan.com/
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