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Willad Wigan:
Art in Miniature
Cobra productions in cooperation with anneferrer presents . . .
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Nano-artist Willard Wigan
lives in Jersey, UK, and
creates the world¶s tiniest
art, working late at night,and timing his movements
between heartbeats.
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Much of his art is created to fit
within the eye of a needle, as
this gold Statue of Liberty.
From being a traumatized and
unrecognized dyslexic child, he is
now emerging as the most globallycelebrated micro-miniaturist of all
time and is literally capable of
turning a spec of dust into a vision
of true beauty.
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Charles Dickens
Winston Churchill
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 period at the end of this sentence.
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Elvis on the Head of a Pin
Marilyn Monroe on a Diamond
Wigan, who is completely self-taught has baffled medical science
and been the subject of discussions
among micro-surgeons, nano-
technologists and at universities
worldwide.
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A girl with a red balloon walks
along an eyelash, supported
by a needle.
A cat climbs a cat whisker
Wigan¶s smallest sculptures can
only be measured in thousandths
of an inch which is why they cansit, very delicately, on a
human hair three thousandths of
an inch thick.
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String Quartet
in the eye of a needle.
The Last Supper
in the eye of a needle
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Snow White and the
Seven Dwarfs (note the
witch with the apple, above
the eye of the needle).
Peter Pan, Tinkerbelle, andthe Darling family children,
John, Wendy, and Michael
(with Teddy Bear)
on a small fish hook.
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Wigan¶s 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.
The Wizard of Oz
Cast: Dorothy, the
Cowardly Lion, the
Scarecrow, the Tin
Man, Glinda, and
the Wicked Witchof the West.
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Zeus, on a Grain of Sandatop the head of a pin.
Rodin¶s The Thinker
on the head of a pin.
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Michelangelo¶s Dav id , front and rear views, on the head of a pin.
When working on this scale Wigan 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 centre point between heartbeats for total stillness of hand.
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The Titanic on a glass granulemounted on the tip of a needle
Solid gold clipper ship on a crystal,
compared to the size of a needle.
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The Tower Bridge in London.
and Henry VIII, with his six
wives (many of whom
spent time in the Tower).
Wigan likens his artistic
process to "trying to pass
a pin through a bubble
without bursting it."
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Adam and Eve
carved in a graphite
pencil lead.
22 kt gold dragonflyperches on the
point of a needle.
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The Eyeof the
Needle
Gold Tiger
Barn Owl
Baby
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The Head
of a Pin
Elephant
Swan
Polar Bear
on Grain of Sugar
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For more information, or to view exhibition schedules, go to:
http://www.willard-wigan.com/art.html
Salamat po!
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