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Mykola Syadristy is an amazing artist! He is a master of microminiatures and holds the title of Honored Master of Folk Arts of Ukraine. The creativeart of this master proved the creation of a new word – "microminiature".The art of microminiatures has been his hobby for forty years. All the 

microminiatures were made by hand with unique technology for each.

Here are a few samples of his work. Enlarged to show detail. Enjoy :) 

SEA: Made of gold and placed on a rice corn. 

CAMELCADE: The author made the whole composition of gold and placed it in the eye of a needle. 

 PARALLEL WORLD: A mosquito life size (6.5 mm. long) is made of gold. A littlegirl is sitting under the umbrella on the nose of the bug. 

 ROSE INSIDE A HAIR: A hair is drilled lengthwise and polished off insideand outside. A rose branch is inserted inside the hair. The diameter of the flower is 0.05 mm. 

 FOX AND GRAPE: The composition is made of gold and placed on a grape seed. 

 METEPHYSICS: The beery factory model is made of gold, platinum,and steel and placed on a half of a barley seed.The composition comprises 137 details.

 CHESSMEN: The finest chess set the world over. The chessboard and chessmen are placed on a pinhead. They show an arrangement of chessmenfrom one of the games played between Alexander Aliokhin (black pieces) and Raul Capablanka. The chessmen are made of gold. 

 MEETING: The composition is made of gold and placed on a grain of sugar. 

THE HUNTING FALCON
The composition is made of gold and placed on a grape seed.

 VISIT TO ETERNITY: The composition is made of gold and placed on a grape seed. Figures of a king and a goddess are the copies of an ancient bas-relief, carved out on a wall of the temple in Kings Valley in Egypt. 

 POETRY: The composition is made of gold and placed in a common needle eye. The arrow and the bowstring is 400 times less than that of a human hair. 

 SWAN OF FINLAND: The body of the sailing frigate is 3.96 mm long (the diameter of the rigging is0.003 mm), which is 400 times thinner than a human hair. The model is made of gold, platinum and glass and consists of 280 details. It is a multiminifiedcopy of its 96-meter original, which is in the Bay of Turku City, Finland.