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Sculpture shows US first family in the eye of needle

(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-01-21 17:47

A British artist has made possibly the tiniest tribute to new US President Barack Obama - a sculpture of him with his family which fits inside the eye of a needle.

This undated image provided by UKFineArts Tuesday January 20 2009, shows a micro sculpture by Willard Wigan showing US, President elect Barrack Obama and his family in the eye of a needle. Barack Obama will be inaugurated as the 44th US president in Washington on Tuesday. [Agencies]

Willard Wigan, a black artist from Birmingham, central England, has for years made sculptures smaller than a pin-head, using minute blades and colouring them using human hairs as paint brushes.

"I wanted to create the smallest biggest tribute to this huge occasion," he said.

"This is something that I never thought would happen, something I never thought I'd see in my lifetime."

The artist, who calls himself a micro-sculptor, said: "I knew I had to do a tribute to this massive occasion, because let's face it, this is history in the making.

"It's like man landing on the moon, the first black president."