{"id":332717,"date":"2026-03-16T19:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T19:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/332717\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T19:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T19:23:07","slug":"peaky-blinders-microsculpture-created-by-artist-dr-willard-wigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/332717\/","title":{"rendered":"Peaky Blinders microsculpture created by artist Dr Willard Wigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The sculptor, who grew up in the Wednesfield area, told BBC Radio WM: &#8220;I&#8217;ve trained my nervous system, I can work between my heartbeats, I have 1.5 seconds to move between the beats, I can slow my heart down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As soon as my pulse stops, I learned to sculpt between the beats. It&#8217;s something that I just evolved into doing and I use my eyelash as a paintbrush.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The smallest one I did was Shakespeare inside a hair. I couldn&#8217;t paint it with an eyelash, so I had to paint it with a piece of dust.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Diagnosed as autistic aged 50, the artist said reading and writing did not come naturally to him but his challenges had led to him discovering his hidden talent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The sculptor, who grew up in the Wednesfield area, told BBC Radio WM: &#8220;I&#8217;ve trained my nervous system,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-332717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}