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  • Micro Art: Church In a Grain of Sand [tiny recreations of Barack Obama and family]

    03/26/2010 11:39:55 PM PDT · by fight_truth_decay · 12 replies · 1,521+ views
    CRI Online ^ | 2010-03-27 13:55:15 | Fang Yang
    BEIJING, March 27 (Xinhuanet) -- To see the world in a grain of sand? Talented micro-sculptor Willard Wigan can prove you. The 52-year-old British man from Birmingham carved a church from a single granule that fits inside the eye of a needle. Willard became famous for sculpting tiny recreations of Barack Obama and his family, as well as Neil Armstrong on the moon's surface. This time he was challenged by his girlfriend who lives at the foot of Chosen Hill in Churchdown, near Gloucester, to sculpt the hilltop parish church St Bartholomew's. "If I made a mistake it would have...