Name: 【TED】Willard Wigan: Hold your breath for micro-sculpture (Willard Wigan: Hold your breath for micro-sculpture)
Uploaded: 2018-02-12T04:31:51.000Z
Duration: 19 min 44 s
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There's an old saying, "Just because you can't see something,

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My work is -- it's a reflection of myself.

you know, if we look down on the ground, there's nothing there.

Nothing doesn't exist, because there is always something.

My mother told me that, when I was a child,

that I should always respect the little things.

What made me do this work? I shall go into my story.

What made me do it? At school, I will admit this:

So I was, more or less, classed as "nothing."

So I decided I didn't really want to be a part of that world.

So when my mother used to take me to school,

and I used to do a U-turn, when her back was turned,

and run off and hide in the shed at the back of the garden.

My mother was like the woman in Tom and Jerry.

And then she said -- grabbed me like that, because my mother was quite big --

I told her I couldn't face it because the way

the teacher was treating me, ridiculing me,

At that age, obviously, I couldn't express it that way,

And then she just said, "You're going back to school tomorrow."

And walked off. And I didn't expect that,

I noticed there was some ants running around.

And I went into this little fantasy world.

"These ants, are they looking for the queen ant?

And how I set about that, I got some splinters of wood.

And I sliced the little splinters of wood with a broken shard of glass,

Well it looked like a little shanty shed when I'd finished.

But I thought, perhaps the ant won't know, it'll probably move in.

That was a bit crude, at the time. And I made all these little apartments

and little merry-go-rounds, seesaws and swings, little ladders.

And then I encouraged the ants to come 'round by putting sugar and things like that.

And then I sat down and all the ants came along.

And all I could hear was "Is this for us?"

And they moved in, and decided not to pay me any rent.

And from there I was watching this little world.

So I realized that there was more to life

than just everything that we see around us that's huge.

So I started to educate myself on this molecular level.

And as I got older, I continued. I showed my mother.

The gentleman who commissioned me to do this

And he says to me "Willard, can you put my house on a pinhead?"

So I say, "How are you going to fit in there?"

"I don't believe you can do it. Can you really do it?"

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【TED】Willard Wigan: Hold your breath for micro-sculpture (Willard Wigan: Hold your breath for micro-sculpture)

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