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when you think of a sculpture you

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probably imagine one of these

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would you ever imagine something that

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can fit in the eye of a needle huh

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meet Willard Wigan I'm Dr Willard wiggin

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MBE I make the smallest sculptures in

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the world

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I've made 14 camels in the oven needle

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the Queen's carriage and I've made one

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of the queen herself Mount Rushmore

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sunshique evolution of man Marianne

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twinette Little Red Riding Hood Einstein

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and more I'd be here forever trying to

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tell you that I've done that many you

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know it all began with an ant's Nest I

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thought the answer homeless

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so I started making them tables and

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chairs

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started picking up little fragments of

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splinters and slicing them and

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constructing and building little houses

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I'm autistic and in school they didn't

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really care I call it a learning

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difference I just learn different to

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anybody else I started experimenting to

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see how small I could really go

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how do you make something so beautiful

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when I'm working on a microscopic level

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have to work between my heartbeat

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because if I don't the pulse in my

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finger will cause problems but the tools

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are very important because they all vary

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in all different types of tools The

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Cutting is the most important thing

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slicing and twisting and bending and

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manipulating I use a little broken Shard

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of diamond smashed and it's like a

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little Splinter looks like a stone age

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splint being microscopic so it's like my

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pulse is a little Jackhammer chiseling

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away

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till I get get the shape I want

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I normally pluck an eyelash out from the

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corner of my eye I'm going to attach it

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to a little cocktail stick and then I

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paint with it I work on five at a time

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if I work on one it'll drive me mad

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I have two World Records the smallest

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sculptures never made by human hands not

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no machine no nanotechnology

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but these micro sculptures don't always

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go to plan I remember once I was making

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a sculpture of Alice in Wonderland after

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I'd made the mad at her and I made the

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teapot I made Alice separately and I was

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lifting there put it into the needle and

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my mobile phone went off

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I went like this who's that and I

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inhaled Alice it's just when she's in my

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cavity somewhere gone

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yeah the work that I do it doesn't

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belong to me I like other people seeing

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it I like to sit there and watch them

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some people burst into tears when they

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see my work you know and that brings it

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home to me when I've done the time that

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I've put in has been worth it so what

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next for Willard I know he's stuck in

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the needle yeah that's a good one

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I'm gonna do that you know