Artist Willard Wigan has been making sculptures for over 50 years, yet unbelievably his entire collection could fit in the palm of your hand. His sculptures are so tiny, you need a microscope to view them. These amazing pieces that take him months to finish are made from a variety of materials including grains of sand, pottery fragments, flecks of gold and other metals. His collection of tools used to make the sculptures include eyelashes, hypodermic needles and minuscule shards of diamond. This videos from Great Big Story shows some of his fascinating creations.

Willard has built astonishing little worlds in the eye of a needle, the Moon Landing, Mount Rushmore and the Last Supper, to name just a few.

He also holds the world record for the smallest sculpture ever made which is the size of a single human blood cell. It’s a fetus carved from Kevlar, placed in the hollowed hole of a single hair.

When he was 50, Willard was diagnosed with autism, which he credits as his “super power” allowing him to see the world differently. He says he hopes his unusual pieces will change other people’s understanding of the world too.