Artist Creates Sculptures So Tiny They Can’t Be Seen By The Human Eye

Sculptures
can come in all shapes and sizes, but these ones
are really, really small. London-based artist Jonty
Hurwitz created a collection of very tiny sculptures
that can't ordinarily be seen with the unclad eye.
His works are 80 by 100 by 20 microns and cannot
detected except on the screen of an extremely
powerful scanning electron microscope. Entafun
reports:
In the photo above, Hurwitz has placed his
nano sculptures on various objects, one
being a human hair. The point of this, he
told The Huffington Post, is to demonstrate
just how small they really are.
"The challenge is that these works exist
beyond the limits of our perceptual
capabilities, and as a consequence beyond
the realms of what we can visualize,"
Hurwitz said. "The thickness of a single hair
is something that every person has
pondered at some point in their childhood."
In one image, he even shows the sculpture
compared to a human sperm.
He said the sculptures, which were created
with new 3D printing technology, are being
reviewed by the Guinness Book of World
Records. They may be the smallest creations
of the human form or the smallest human
portraits ever created.
Hurwitz got an engineering degree in
Johannesburg, South Africa, where he
"discovered the fine line between art and
science." All of his pieces take physics into
account and use over 1 billion calculations
and algorithms.

Posted By David Aniemeka