Smallest sculpture of a human
Who
Jonty Hurwitz
What
80, 100, 30 micrometre(s) aka micron(s)
Where
Germany (Karlsruhe)
When

The smallest sculpture modelled on a real person was "Trust" by Jonty Hurwitz (UK), a 3D-printed piece depicting a nude and measuring 80 by 100 by 30 microns (or the diameter of a human hair). The statue, inspired by the artist’s first love 27 years after they met, was verified on 13 February 2015 at the Karlsruhe Nano Micro Facility in Germany.

Soon after it was measured, the statue disappeared, most probably crushed accidentally by a full-size human finger. The sculpture was created by “digitizing" the posing model into a 3D computer image using a multiple-camera technique called photogrammetry. This file was then then miniaturized, sculpted and “printed" using multiphoton lithography, a technique in which a pliable material is polymerised piece by piece by focusing photons onto specific points.There are around 1,000 microns in one millimetre.