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When I first heard that Barack Obama was going to be the first black president, I wanted to do the smallest, biggest tribute in history.

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Willard Wigan
Age: 67
Artist
Painter
Sculptor
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I started making houses for ants because I thought they needed somewhere to live. Then I made them shoes and hats. It was a fantasy world I escaped to where my dyslexia didn't hold me back and my teachers couldn't criticize me. That's how my career as a micro-sculptor began.
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I became obsessed with making more and more tiny things. I think I was trying to find a way of compensating for my embarrassment at having learning difficulties: people had made me feel small so I wanted to show them how significant 'small' could be.
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I'm like a mad professor, but without the spiky hair.
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The smaller your work, the bigger your name will become.
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My teacher said my brain was the size of a pea. He made my life miserable by singling me out in the classroom as a failure.
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As a kid, I lived in a fantasy world. I used to believe ants could talk. Not once did they say thank you.
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