Wow....this brutha is amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!

Art in the Eye of a Needle ($20 Million Worth)

February 1st, 2009

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Willard Wigan of Birmingham, England, has learning difficulties and cannot read or write, but as a child he learned to express himself through art, especially microscopic sculpture.  As he explains:

Being a child I used to start making houses for ants because I thought they needed somewhere to live. I lived in a fantasy world and I thought they needed shoes and hats.

His amazing collection of some 70 micro-sculptures—each one small enough to fit inside the eye of a needle or balance on an eyelash or on the end of a pin—sold in 2007 for some $20 million.  His art is so delicate and difficult to create that he must slow down his heartbeat and breathing in order to make it.  In fact, he thinks he accidentally inhaled his lost Alice in Wonderland sculpture!

 

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Thank you for sharing this.  What a gift!  He really has overcome a lot of life obstacles.

I actually heard about these sculptures some time ago....but it never crossed my mind that a brutha was responsible and you know...thats a shame when I think about it now. Well...from now on...I will assume its one of us...until its proven differently and not the other way around.

That's just incredible!  I'd love to see his work.......and him......He's kinda phine!....

J

@ He's kinda phine!....

Gurl......I was thinking the same thing....and the goatee set it off.

I met him before. He is definetly fine and he has British accent. Talk about oozing sexiness. Check out his website. He has some major talent.

I say they make his biography into a MOVIE and let Idris Elba play the lead.......... ooooooooooooohhh....now that would be a movie that I would stand in line for............yuummmmmmmy

That is pretty awesome.   There is no way I could see any of his art without my glasses, but it sure is incredible.