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Ahead of Friday's release of Marvel's latest cinematic
offering "Ant-Man", micro-artist Willard Wigan has recreated the
superhero, who can shrink in size but grow in power, on a very
small scale -- in the eye of a needle.
The figurine is so minute it has to be viewed properly through a
microscope, as with most of Wigan's work.
At "Antsibition", his tiny "Ant-Man" is on display alongside
other pieces measuring only a few micromillimetres, such as a
skateboarder on the end of an eye lash and a Harley motorbike,
also sitting in the eye of a needle.
"I don't enjoy doing this work because it drives me insane but I
get pleasure when I finish it," Wigan told Reuters.
"That's the drive...the end result, the finish."
Wigan began creating the tiny work at the age of five when he
made houses for ants -- one of which is also on display at "Antsibition"
in a gallery itself made up of a small room at London's Old
Street station.
He makes his own small tools -- such as tweezers made from a
dead wasp's sting and paints with a fly's hair.
"If you make a mistake as you're painting...the whole thing will
be a total shambles," he said. "Anything I do, it's microns of
movement, I have to be a dead man working. Everything has to be
so still, sometimes I find myself going cold."
"Ant-Man", which stars Paul Rudd and Michael Douglas, is
released on July 17.
(Reporting By Helena Williams; Writing by Marie-Louise
Gumuchian)
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