Tuesday, 15 February 2011

It occurred to me

that I haven't explained my idea for a project, whoops!

A little while ago I discovered the work of Slinkachu, a London-based artist who creates very small street-based installations and then photographs them: from far away and up-close.  He takes tiny model people and modifies them to suit his purpose, then constructs a scene in the street, photographs it, and then leaves it there.
You could easily walk past a Slinkachu installation and not know that it is there!

http://slinkachu.com/

In his work Slinkachu produces a close-up and a wide shot of each piece, I want to produce just a wide shot but to play with the idea of scale.  I don't want it to be immediately obvious that it is a tiny model person in a normal sized environment.  The models that I intend to use are HO gauge (1:87 scale) and are generally used for building model railway set-ups.

The first shot planned is of a little old lady with a trolley full of shopping making her way across a supermarket car park, details to follow.

3 comments:

  1. Looks like Slinkachu is featured on MSN today. Small world and all that, fnar fnar fnar.

    http://news.uk.msn.com/odd-news/special-photo-galleries/photos.aspx?cp-documentid=156152399&ocid=today

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  2. Hey Claire

    I found this photographer Timo Klos, he may be of interest to you. His project "sight seeing" takes small objects and makes them appear like giant landscapes. I also enjoy his project "Objects without Soul".

    http://timoklos.de/html/sightseeing__hainstadt-kreisof.html

    Best

    Andy

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  3. Chris, very droll, but yes.... small world!
    I am waiting for the dates of his March exhibition at Andipa Contemporary gallery in London.

    Thanks for the link Andy, very clever pictures aren't they?
    and quite different from the other projects.

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