Sculpture in the Eye of a Needle

Today's video features micro miniaturist, Willard Wigan, who creates sculptures from a fragment of a grain of sand. Sculptures so small they fit on the head of a pin or within the eye of a needle. Sculptures so small, he says he inhaled one accidently.

"Ooops!"

Willard makes most of his tiny tools himself. Or he gets them from nature: his paintbrush is the single hair of a house fly.

"Ouch!" said the fly.

When asked by the reporter if he enjoys his work, he answers, "No, it's painstaking. It's misery."

The reward for Wigan comes when a sculpture is complete.

Funny, sometimes that's how I feel about editing my blog. Writing is easy, but oh the pain of editing.

Give the video a watch, it's less than three minutes long, and fascinating.