Willard Wigan - Needle Tip Sculpture
The three artists featured above focus (that's the operative word here) on creating incy-wincey sculptures that are large in their novelty and capacity to surprise, if not in their size. I was once rather chuffed with myself for owning a deck of playing cards the size of my thumb-nail. Needles to say, I lost it. There is something very pleasurable about infinitesimally small creations. Maybe they bring us closer to our atoms. Also, they do not seek out an overt attention-grabbing audience, but rather exist in reality as items of skill and virtuosity that require very direct experience and personal engagement from the viewer. A wee treasure waiting to be shared.
Dalton Ghetti, who carves out his own niche as well as sculptures into pencil lead, uses three basic tools to make his tiny creations – a razor blade, sewing needle and sculpting knife. Dalton has never sold any of his work and only gives it away to friends. The longest Dalton has spent on one piece was two and half years on a pencil with interlinking chains.
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