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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/microscopic-handbag-auction-180982405/

Measuring 657 by 222 by 700 micrometers, the teeny-tiny bag could sell for thousands at auction





To bring its vision to life, the MSCHF team first had to find a manufacturer that specialized in producing tiny objects. Eventually, a biotechnology manufacturer agreed to take on the project, using a process known as two-photon polymerization to create the bag out of resin. When the company began sending tiny samples for review, they were so small that the MSCHF team even lost a few.

Whoever purchases the bag won’t have to worry about that: It’s being sold inside a sealed gel case placed under a microscope with a digital display.

The artists at MSCHF, for their part, hope that whoever walks away with the microscopic bag won’t take it too seriously. “I almost hope somebody eats it,” Wiesner tells the Times.