Now, did that catch your attention or what?! It's the Statue of Liberty IN the eye of a needle! I repeat, the Statue of Liberty in a needle's eye!!! If this not awesome, I don't know what planet you are living on! Now, let's find out more on the creator of this artwork and of course... a look at some of his awesome artworks!
According to Snopes.com:
Willard Wigan was born in Birmingham, England in 1957 and is the creator of the smallest works of art on earth. From being a traumatized and unrecognized dyslexic child, he is now emerging as the most globally celebrated micro-miniaturist of all time and is literally capable of turning a spec of dust into a vision of true beauty.
Willard can create a masterpiece within the eye of a tiny sewing needle, on the head of a pin, the tip of an eyelash or a grain of sand. Some are many times smaller than the full stop at the end of this sentence. Many are even smaller still, with some being completely invisible to the naked eye yet, when viewed through high power magnification, the effect on the viewer is truly mesmerizing.
Willard, who is completely self-taught has baffled medical science and been the subject of discussions among micro-surgeons, nano-technologists and at universities worldwide. His work is ground-breaking
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.
The smallest sculptures can only be measured in thousandths of an inch which is why they can sit, very delicately, on a human hair three thousandths of an inch thick. When working on this scale he slows his heartbeat and his breathing dramatically through meditation and attempts to harmonize his mind, body and soul with the Creator. He then sculpts or paints at the center point between heartbeats for total stillness of hand.
He likens this process to "trying to pass a pin through a bubble without bursting it." His concentration is intense when working like this and he feels mentally and physically drained at the end of it. Willard Wigan works with materials such as toothpicks, sugar crystals, and grains of rice and sand, spending months meticulously carving his materials into micro-figures like the ones displayed above.
Now let's take a look at his awesome-awesome artworks!
(* Images from: http://www.snopes.com/photos/arts/microscopic.asp)
Now more on his awesome-awesome artworks and an interview article with Willard Wigan!
(* Images from: http://www.bbc.co.uk/birmingham/blast/2004/jonathan/willard_wigan/gallery/1.shtml)
Amazing, huh? I think that must be how we looked like to God! Hmm...
Hope you enjoyed this article and find it inspiring! :D
Hope you enjoyed this article and find it inspiring! :D
4 comments:
Absolutely unbelievable! Amazing. There is no adjective to adequately describe what this artist is capable of doing. *shaking head in disbelief*
Amazing isn't it? He's very talented
WoW! What a talented artist. Unbelieveable!
Truly gifted. People never fail to impress me.
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