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Thursday, October 5, 2006

Tiny house sculpture

Artist Willard Wigan made a model of a house that fits on the head of a pin.

'I spent 15 hours a day for seven weeks sculpting a minute piece of diamond. The beams are made out of floating fibres that you see in sunlight.
'To paint the house, I took the hair from a dead spider's legs and made a paintbrush. Then it was a case of being very patient and careful.'

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