UNICEF Toy Soldiers

  UNICEF has created a campaign to highlight the plight of Africa’s child soldiers. They have sent out a mailer containing a pack of what initially appears to be regular green toy soldiers. The miniatures are in fact models of

Small Worlds – Part 4 – Walter Martin and Paloma Muñoz

  Walter Martin and Paloma Muñoz are a pair of artists who express themselves through the medium of miniatures in snowglobes. Like Thomas Doyle much of their work is dark and surreal. Their work has been described as depicting the elaborate bleakness

Small Worlds – Part 3 – Thomas Doyle Snowglobes

Thomas Doyle creates snowglobes with fantastically dark and subversive themes. Take for example “Clearing” from his “Reclamations” series. In this wonderfully recursive and self-referential work, a person (ironically trapped in a snowglobe) encounters another person trapped within a smaller snowglobe and crying

Small Worlds – Part 2 – Michael Samuels

I had real trouble selecting my favourite image of Michael Samuels’ art for this post, since I like it all so much. Michael’s work consists of small scenes, reminiscent of those on a model railroad, but with some twists. The

Small Worlds – Part 1 – Little People

Since I’m fascinated by miniatures as art, I thought I’d do a small series of the artists and web-sites that I’m drawn to and try to explain (mostly for my own benefit) what it is I like about the work. Here’s