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(Willard Wigan)

Artist Willard Wigan is the creator of the world’s smallest sculptures. The above scene is situated inside a sewing needle. Wigan takes months to complete a piece and works between heartbeats to avoid hand tremors. He uses a tiny surgical blade to carve his figures out of gold and grains of sand which are then mounted on pinheads. To paint 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 his art). Wigans recently completed a sculpture of the Obama family.

Visit Wigan’s site for more images here.

Watch a video on Wigan here.