Artist Jonty Hurwitz has created the world’s smallest sculptures: nanosculptures, created using a 3D printed photosensitive material, so small they can fit on the head of an ant, in the eye of a needle, on a human hair — so small they look like no more than a mote of dust hanging in a ray of sunlight. The largest of his sculptures — a series of seven, inspired by 18th century sculpture “Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss” by Antonia Canova — is about the width of a human hair; the smallest is less than half that width.
“It’s so interesting when you bring in scientists — and I’ve had this happen in all the projects I’ve worked on –when you bring scientists into the art world, you get so inspired and so excited,” he says of the process.
