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Hi Daniel,
Thanks for your last email and the photos. I’ve never been 1 or tried to do 2 , but they both sound great fun! My favourite hobby is surfing. It’s 3 at first, but it’s great to be outdoors on a sunny day.
Surfing can be frightening when you first start and don’t know what you’re doing, but it becomes easier. There are surfing clubs 4 the coast. I really enjoy exercise, so at school I’m also in the 5 . We use the 6 once a week at lunchtime and run once or twice a week after school.
Anyway, send me some pictures of your new BMX bike. I like the pictures of your house. You’re very lucky to have a 7 in your garden. We have one in our village. It’s 8 so we can use it all year. It’s quite small though, and it isn’t very relaxing because it’s 9 the main road.
Willard Wigan (born in 1957 in England) is the creator of the smallest works of art on Earth! His miniature sculptures include The Titanic on a pinhead, a cat on an eyelash and the six wives of Henry VIII in the eye of a needle. Some art a lot smaller than the full stop at the end of this sentence.
Wigan started making tiny things when he was a child. People made him feel small because he had learning difficulties, so he decided to show them how significant small could be! How does he create his unbelievable micro-sculptures? He slows his breathing, then patiently sculpts or paints between heartbeats, so that his hand stays perfectly still. He spends months carving his tiny creations from materials such as toothpicks, sugar crystals and grains of rice and then paints them with a tiny hair such as an eyelash. So how do visitors to Willard Wigan's exhibitions view his work? Through a microscope, of course!