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SLINKACHU

Manhole Swimming, Ravenscourt Park, London, 2008

Variable Size

“My ‘Little People Project’ started in 2006. It involves the remodelling and painting of miniature model train set characters, which I then place and leave on the street. It is both a street art installation project and a photography project. 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 emphasise [sic] with the tiny people in my works.”

http://www.slinkachu.com/

http://little-people.blogspot.com/

BAUKE KNOTTNERUS

Phat Knits, 2008

Variable size

Knottnerus is a graduate of the Design Academy of Eindhoven with a focus in industrial and furniture design. Knottnerus created Phat Knits, a collection of colorful, giant knotted textile forms that double as furniture. “This is the closest you could get to having your very own Honey, I Shrunk the Kids experience.”

http://baukeknottnerus.nl/

PETER CALLESEN

Alive, but Dead, 2006

127 x 94 x 11,5 cm.

Acid Free paper, glue, acrylic paint, and oak frame

“The paper cut sculptures explore the probable and magical transformation of the flat sheet of paper into figures that expand into the space surrounding them. The negative and absent 2 dimensional space left by the cut, points out the contrast to the 3 dimensional reality it creates, even though the figures still stick to their origin without the possibility of escaping.”

www.petercallesen.com