Slinkachu

Back in a February post I mentioned Slinkachu.  His was the first work I had seen using the tiny OO/HO gauge people and I loved it.

His Little People project began in 2006.  It involves the remodelling and painting of miniature model train set characters, which he places, and leaves, on the street. It is both a street art installation project and a photography project.  He says '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, almost being lost and overwhelmed. But underneath this, there is always some humour. I want people to be able to empathise with the tiny people in my works'.

The High Life

 

Spilt Milk

These two are of a creation called 'Accident'.  In all of his Little People work Slinkachu shows a close shot as well as a shot or two showing the 'bigger picture' (pun intended!).  I particularly like this piece.

 

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.