It's Emma's World - Episode 14 - Artist Willard Wigan

platforms with microscopes. When I looked into the microscope I saw super magnified sculptures that were inside the eyes of sewing needles, on the heads of pins, carved in pencil graphite and even more microscopic things. I was BLOWN away. I saw that Willard needs to reduce his heartbeat to 48 beats per minute to do his work! Willard is autistic. In school teachers and students called him trash because he couldn't read, thanks to his autism. They said he would never amount to much, but he proved them wrong. The man is a genius and highly talented. He comes on to tell his story about how he got into making miniatures and how he holds world records.