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

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

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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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