Here is an article of the Guinness Book of World Records’ Smallest Human Sculpture that will overindulge your eyes. It stands on a strand of human hair, with plenty of room to spare.
South African sculptor Jonty Hurwitz’s microscopic polymer statue titled “Trust”. It has dimensions of around 80 x 100 x 20 microns equivalent to 1/100th of a centimeter.
Unfortunately, it was accidentally crushed by a photographer, leaving the artist shocked.
Once an entrepreneur, the artist incorporated a similar tech wizardry to the sculpture that he entered on a finance website with a value of $500 M.
His nano-sculptures are created from a strange resin he calls as a huge scientific secret and generated using a two-photon lithography process.
The 45-year-old artist worked with a group of nanotechnology engineers at Karlsruhe University. The team focused ultraviolet light beams, hardening the liquid resin one 3D pixel at a time.
The resulting sculpture can sit on a head of an ant. Position it into the needle’s eye, and it will hardly occupy one area.
Photographing is also challenging and requires an extraordinary microscope. The scanning process uses an electron microscope, where they analyze and photographs the nano-sculpture.
Although, there are some who thinks the sculpture was never there. Invisible to the naked human eye, how do we know it’s there beyond the computer screen?
Whether you believe it or not, you can’t deny the level of appeal this nano-sculpture demonstrate, and we are captivated by the science behind it. We would never have thought that someone could make an art smaller than a hair strand.
