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Eye of the Needle art for Willard Wigan.
Sculptor's tiny art a big hit for Ripley's
Little things mean a lot to sculptor Willard Wigan. He has created dozens of pieces of art that fit into the eye of a needle or on the head of a pin.
Orlando-based Ripley Entertainment purchased 97 of Wigan's microsculptures, which have started appearing in its Believe It or Not museums.
Wigan, 55, started thinking small as a 5-year-old, making houses for ants that he feared were homeless. He carved wood shavings with this father's razor blade.
"I got carried away and made a few more houses, then I made tables and chairs and little beds. Then I started to make little carousels and things like that. So this is where the obsession kicked in," Wigan said Monday.
Here is a google search of various works:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&cp=10&gs_id=67&xhr=t&q=willard+wigan&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&biw=1280&bih=689&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=SA4XUL2dLYOY8gSGr4CoDg
