David's World

September 13, 2006

Little Men in Big

You'd be scared to death if you could see yourself in relation to the size of the universe, Douglas Adams wrote once, and Slinkachu, an artist-blogger based in London, has been taking a stab at this with his intense, depth-of-focus-laden pictures of miniature figures in unlikely places.

Slinkachu's Little People blog reminds me of the long-running Elvis-lebt project, where an artist/journalist photographed life-size Presley figures in varies places. Slinkachu's technique makes you think of an individual's role in our world - and how much we are contrained by our emotions and the physics of our surroundings. How tall the pin-up girl appears when you're only a small man. How much a penny can mean to you when you're poor & hungry.