LONDON (AFP) - A British artist has made possibly the tiniest tribute to new US President Barack Obama " a sculpture of him with his family which fits inside the eye of a needle. Willard Wigan, a black artist from Birmingham, central England, has for years made sculptures smaller than a pin-head, using minute blades and colouring them using human hairs as paint brushes. "I wanted to create the smallest biggest tribute to this huge occasion," he told the BBC ahead of Obama's inauguration. "This is something that I never thought would happen, something I never thought I'd see in my lifetime." The artist, who calls himself a micro-sculptor, added: "I knew I had to do a tribute to this massive occasion, because let's face it, this is history in the making. "It's like man landing on the moon, the first black president."