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Little people going about their lives - (Original Post)
packman
Jan 2020
OP
Oh my. The artist beautifully brings to life motion and emotion and usually with a message.
gristy
Jan 2020
#6
as soon as i started viewing this , this old theme song from an old tv show
AllaN01Bear
Jan 2020
#16
Leghorn21
(13,523 posts)1. WHAT THE HELL IS THIS PACKMAN
I LOVE THIS SO MUCH
WOW
CurtEastPoint
(18,622 posts)4. There are more. Here's the link to 4 galleries.
Leghorn21
(13,523 posts)5. Thank you, Curt!!!
CurtEastPoint
(18,622 posts)7. I was intrigued, too. I got the image link and traced it.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)2. Kudos, quite charming.
flotsam
(3,268 posts)3. N scale?
If so the painting is superb!
gristy
(10,667 posts)6. Oh my. The artist beautifully brings to life motion and emotion and usually with a message.
pressbox69
(2,252 posts)8. OMG
Karadeniz
(22,475 posts)9. So cute! Must be difficult to carve!
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,488 posts)10. Artist's web page....
See more art here: https://slinkachu.com/
About.....
Castaways....
Thanks for posting, Packman.........
KY.
About.....
Slinkachu (b. 1979, Devon, UK) has been abandoning his miniature people on the streets of cities around the world since 2006. His work embodies elements of street art, sculpture, installation art and photography and has been exhibited in galleries and museums globally. His images have been collected in three best-selling art books; Little People in the City (Boxtree, 2009), Big Bad City (Lebowski, 2010) and Global Model Village (Boxtree, 2012) that have collectively sold over 300,000 copies worldwide.
Artist Statement
I started working with miniatures in 2006. My work involves remodelling and painting of miniature model train set characters, which I then place and leave on the street. It is both sculpture, street art installation and photography. The street-based side of my work plays with the notion of surprise and I aim to encourage city-dwellers to be more aware of their surroundings. The scenes I set up, more evident through the photography and the titles I give these scenes, aim to reflect the loneliness and melancholy of living in a big city; the universal sense of being overlooked, lost and overwhelmed. But along side this there is always some humour in my works. The modern world can be a preposterous place to live and I encourage empathy with the tiny people struggling to get by.
Artist Statement
I started working with miniatures in 2006. My work involves remodelling and painting of miniature model train set characters, which I then place and leave on the street. It is both sculpture, street art installation and photography. The street-based side of my work plays with the notion of surprise and I aim to encourage city-dwellers to be more aware of their surroundings. The scenes I set up, more evident through the photography and the titles I give these scenes, aim to reflect the loneliness and melancholy of living in a big city; the universal sense of being overlooked, lost and overwhelmed. But along side this there is always some humour in my works. The modern world can be a preposterous place to live and I encourage empathy with the tiny people struggling to get by.
Castaways....
Thanks for posting, Packman.........
KY.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,817 posts)11. Oh, my.
All of them are amazing. Thank you for posting.
Collimator
(1,639 posts)12. Indeed. Thank your posting!
The world got a little more interesting today.
GeoWilliam750
(2,521 posts)13. Cool!
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,545 posts)14. Cool!
benld74
(9,901 posts)15. Love sliding down the stair rail!!
AllaN01Bear
(18,016 posts)16. as soon as i started viewing this , this old theme song from an old tv show
called " land of the giants " started blaring in my head.