Willard Wigen - Big Fun, writ small

Willard Wigen's wonders are almost unimaginably small, almost unimaginably challenging to create. I extract:

"The smallest sculptures can only be measured in thousandths of an inch which is why they can sit, very delicately, on a human hair three thousandths of an inch thick. When working on this scale he slows his heartbeat and his breathing dramatically through meditation and attempts to harmonise his mind, body and soul with the Creator. He then sculpts or paints at the centrepoint between heartbeats for total stillness of hand. He likens this process to 'trying to pass a pin through a bubble without bursting it.' His concentration is intense when working like this and he feels mentally and physically drained at the end of it."

OK, kids, this is what I mean about fun. What's Willard doing, if I may ask, getting in touch with the Creator so he can make a sculpture too tiny to see, if not having fun?

Oh, he's having fun, all right. Big fun. Deep fun. Really real fun. Playing in a teeny, tiny world, too small for the naked eye to see.