Willard Wigan can’t read nor write. In fact as a young learning disabled student, Wigan’s teachers would belittle him, confident that he would amount to nothing. Little did they know, he would be amounting nothing into micro-sculptures and reaping fame and fortune from rare art collectors and even honors from the Prince of Wales!
Wigan’s sculptures are crafted with a combination of homemade tools, creative implementations of his surroundings (like painting with the hair from the back of a housefly), and of course, a microscope. From the Obama family in the eye of a needle to Charlie Chaplin balancing precariously atop an eyelash, these sculptures are painstakingly crafted into collectibles that extend the imagination and stand…well, not quite so tall, but definitely magnificently, as a testament to the capabilities of man. Check out his site here.
