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Willard Wigan is showing me around his My Little Eye Gallery in Bloomsbury when he points to a piece entitled Little Miss Muffet with a £40,000 price tag and challenges me: "What do you see?" I scrutinise it and reply that I see nothing apart from a needle under a microscope. "Now use the microscope," he entreats me.

I peer down through the 30-times magnifying lens and what I see blows my mind: inside the eye of the needle, invisible to the naked eye, is a microscopic sculpture of a perfectly proportioned red-haired girl sitting in a blue and white dress with her legs crossed and a hairy spider descending on a thread behind her.

Imagine a piece of art so minuscule that it would fit inside the full stop at the end of this sentence......

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