What do you need to create sculptures?
You’ll need different types of materials, right? You’ll need a hammer, chisel, brushes, mold, clay, and carving tools.
This man uses a diamond shard, hypodermic needs, cocktail toothpicks, a human eyelash, and a microscope to create sculptures.
Meet Dr. Willard Wigan, MBE.
He’s also known as the man who creates the tiniest sculptures in the world.
He started creating these tiny sculptures when he was little because of ants. Ants are homeless so he decided to create tiny homes and tiny furniture for them.
“I started picking up little fragments of splinters and slicing them and constructing and building little houses,” Dr. Wigan explained.
Dr. Wigan started and continued doing this art to deal with his less accepting peers.
Dr. Wigan was diagnosed with autism and dyslexia and his elementary school teachers and classmates always criticized him because of this.
He said that if they couldn’t see his art, they couldn’t criticize or mock him. Eventually, he tried to challenge himself and went as tiny as he could.
We’re talking pin-point precision here.
In fact, they were so small, his pieces fit in the eye of the needle or on top of a dress pin.
He’s made tiny sculptures of 14 camels, the Evolution of Man, Little Red Riding Hood, the Mad Hatter party from Alice in Wonderland, Queen Elizabeth, and Marie Antoinette.
How does he do it?
How can he create those tiny sculptures?
“When I’m working on a microscopic level, I have to work between my heartbeat. Because if I don’t, the pulse in my finger will cause problems,” Dr. Wigan explained. “My pulse is like a jackhammer, chiselling away until I get the shape I want.”
Are there even tools that exist to help him create these?
Dr. Wigan had to be creative with that.
He uses a smashed and broken shard of a diamond. When you view it with a microscope, it looks like a stone splinter.
He also uses his eyelash (just one) and attaches it to a cocktail toothpick to serve as his paintbrush.
He usually works on five projects at a time because it’ll drive him mad if he only works on one project at a time.
The Guinness Book of World Records has already dubbed him the greatest micro sculptor in the world today.
What were his records?
His first World Record he received in 2013 for the smallest sculpture ever made by a human hand.
This was a 24-carat gold motorcycle that he placed inside a piece of his own drilled-out hair.
The second World Record was him beating his first record.
This was an embryo carved out from Kevlar and fit inside his hollowed-out beard stubble. It was the same size as a human blood cell.
How crazy is that?
Because of his craft, Dr. Wigan has learned to regulate his breathing, heart rate, and neurological system to work effectively.
He also meditates a lot to calm his mind and emotions and help keep his hands steady.
There was one time he was working on Alice from Alice in Wonderland.
He was about to place Alice in the needle when his phone rang. He got distracted for a second and when he looked back, Alice was gone.
Dr. Wigan accidentally inhaled Alice.
Dr. Wigan started creating tiny sculptures to avoid criticism.
Now, he enjoys showing his work to people.
He says the time he spent, usually 16-hour days for three to four months, has been worth it.
Would you like to see more of his tiny art? Watch the video below!
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