Nov
10
Small Worlds – Part 1 – Little People
Filed Under Art, Miniatures
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 part 1.
Nuart Show - Little People
Little People – a tiny street art project- The artist started this project by posing miniature people in various public places around London, photographing them and then leaving them to fend for themselves. The images suggest a tiny parallel world that exists alongside our own and occasionally intersects with tragic or amusing consequences. In this world where the gigantic meets the tiny, a real world bee becomes a monster to be killed with a rifle, and a snail serves as public transport. Even though each image creates an atmosphere and stands alone in its own right, it’s easy to string these images together in your mind and imagine the entirely alternative miniature world exisiting alongside our own.
My personal favourites are the pictures from the Nuart Show, where an entire scene has been modelled in a gallery. I particularly like the scene of the accident where a framed (real-world-sized) picture has come crashing down into the world of the little people and one unfortunate victim has been impaled by a gigantic shard of glass.
Image Credit: © slickachu
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