12 Amazingly Tiny Pieces of Art

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12 Amazingly Tiny Pieces of Art

Who says you can’t put a camel through the eye of a needle? Russian miniaturist Nikolai Aldunin has fit seven through this one. The artist works between the beats of his heart, in order to keep his hands perfectly still. He creates works of art so tiny that a microscope is needed to see them. (Link)

A team of Japanese engineers created the smallest statue ever. A three-dimensional bull the size of a red blood cell has been etched in plastic by engineers at Osaka University in Japan. Measuring only 10 by 7 micrometers — one micrometer is one-thousandth of a millimeter — the bull is the smallest truly three-dimensional sculpture ever created. (Link)

This pin-head sized replica of the Lloyd’s of London building, by Willard Wigan, has been sold for £94,000 at auction. The work, which took four months to be created using white gold and platinum, is no larger than a granule of sugar and must be viewed through a microscope. (Link)

Also by artist Steven Backman, this is a miniature replica of the Empire State Building. (Link)

Brazilian artist Nele Azevedo diligently carved hundreds of miniature ice figures as part of a recent installation for WWF, only to watch them slowly melt in the heat of the day. As the sun beat down on the tiny sculptures they stooped and slumped, lending an ephemeral quality to the already very cool installation. (Link 1 | Link 2)