God’s universe is filled with infinite wonders. Occasionally we stumble across one of those wonders that is so out of the ordinary that it drops your jaw in awe. Willard Wigan’s works of art is one of those occasions.
Willard Wigan was born in Birmingham, England in 1957 and is the creator of the smallest works of art on earth…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…
Here are a couple of examples.
Peter Pan, Tinkerbell and friends on a fishhook
The Statue of Liberty in the eye of a needle
Check out his web site for many more.
Cool!
Talk about breaking through the boundaries of limitation……
His site says this:
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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 harmonise his mind, body and soul with the Creator. He then sculpts or paints at the centrepoint 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.
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wow, sounds more spiritual than anything else.
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Probably a lesson somewhere in there about reducing our dependence on matter, too.
When I was little, my aunt had a plaque in her kitchen that said something like, “We have been doing so much, with so little, for so long, that pretty soon we will be able to do anything, with nothing at all, in no time flat.” I don’t think she intended this as a metaphysical lesson, but as I think about it, that’s what it was.
Last year, I heard a lecturer talk about how society continues to shrink the amount of matter it uses to transmit information. She used iPods as an example: You can store a music collection of several thousand songs on a device the size of a calculator.
Somehow, in looking at my iPod — and at these tiny works of art — I am reminded of that message on my aunt’s wall. Humanity is progressing, be it ever so gradually….