As a boy, Wigan heard the Bible story in which Jesus says that it would be easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God. So he decided to see just how difficult that would be and sculpted a camel the size of a needle's eye.

Today all his microsculptures are about this size--fractions of a millimeter across. Figures within a given sculpture could be three times smaller than the period at the end of this sentence.