In the Eye of Needle Art!

Wow... I just stumbled upon this wonderful and amazing artworks! Today, I'd like to share with you guys these amazing make-me-speechless-in-awe artworks by Willard Wigan. What is so amazing you ask? Take a look below...

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 — partly because of the astounding beauty of vision which challenges the belief system of the mind and partly because it demonstrates that if one person can create the impossible, we all have the potential to transcend our own limiting beliefs about what we are capable of.

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)

Statue of Liberty in the eye of a needle!

Elvis on top of a pin head.

Boxing ring next to a match stick head.

Girl with balloon is standing on an eyelash glued to the top of a needle. EYELASH!!! Gosh!!

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)

This image shows the cast of Peter Pan on a fish hook.

This image shows Snow White and the seven dwarves in the eye of a needle.

This image shows The Thinker on a pinhead!

Amazing, huh? I think that must be how we looked like to God! Hmm...
Hope you enjoyed this article and find it inspiring! :D