Willard Wigan's Microsculptures

This can’t be art… or can it?

Microsculptures

Willard Wigan  (born in June in 1957) is an English sculpture from Ashmore Park Estate, Wednesfield, England , who makes microscopic art. His sculptures are typically placed in the eye of a needle or on the head of a pin. A single sculpture can be as small as 0.005 mm.

As a child with undiagnosed dyslexia, Willard Wigan was ridiculed in class by his primary school teachers for not learning to read. Wigan attributes his early drive in sculpting, which began at the age of five, to his need to escape from the derision of teachers and classmates.  He wanted to show the world that nothing did not exist, deducing that if people were unable to view his work, then they would not be in any position to criticize it. Wigan has since aimed to make even smaller artworks, visible only with a microscope.

On average, it takes Wigan about eight weeks to complete one sculpture in a process that is physically challenging. Because the works are microscopic, the sculptor has learned to control his nervous system and breathing to ensure he does not make even the tiniest movement. Wigan, when working, enters a meditative state in which his heartbeat is slowed, allowing him to reduce any hand tremors and work between heartbeats.

To carve his figures, Wigan uses   surgical blades or hand-made tools, (some of which are custom made out of a sharpened microscopic sliver, which he makes by attaching a shard of diamond to a pin. Wigan uses a range of materials, including nylon, grains of sand, dust fibers, gold and spider’scobwebs depending on the demands of the piece on which he is working. To paint his creations Wigan often uses a hair from a dead housefly although he does not kill flies for his artistic processes. 

А это работы Жин Йин Хуа… Китайский художник создал более 100 микроизображений и скульптур за последние 10 лет…

Адрес публикации: https://www.prodlenka.org/metodicheskie-razrabotki/180593-willard-wigans-microsculptures