Thu 8th Feb, 2007, Amazing art

It’s a small world etc etc

And in this corner, from Birmingham, England, Willard Wigen, competing for the title of The Most Microscopic Art You Can Only Enjoy With A Big Fat Magnifying Glass. Wigen may have dyslexia, but that’s not going to stop him from building monuments out of particles of dust and crystals of sugar.

Behold, if you can, Elvis on the head of a pin! A little girl (well, obviously) holding a balloon standing on an eyelash glued to the top of a needle! How does he do it? Painstakingly!

Why does he do it? If the Nazis can’t find his art, they can’t confiscate it! See the rest.