Godzilla figures by Doug Napoli
Godzilla figures by Doug Napoli
Prompt: Using any media and materials, create something or someplace in miniature.
Are you craving a little more space, or missing a place, needing a change of scenery or ready for something to be a little different? How about some small scale world-building to satisfy your desire?
Miniatures evoke a feeling of wonder or awe . . . They suspend reality, taking you out of your surroundings and bringing you into a new world.
Quote excerpt by artist Joe Fig from a short essay about the history of miniatures by Rachel Nuwer for “Feel Big Live Small,“ an exhibition of miniatures organized by Elan Smithee at Apexart at 291 Church Street in NYC.
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Check THIS out from hyperallergic.com!!!
A Couple Made a Mini-Museum for Their Gerbils to Visit During Quarantine.
As the pandemic continues, two self-quarantined Londoners decided their gerbils needed an art-filled space to unwind.
Nine-month old brothers Pandoro and Tiramisù survey London’s newest art institution, The Gerbil Museum (photos courtesy museum trustees Filippo and Marianna)
Image: Lim Pui Wan
Learn More About Miniatures
Check out some artists who create on miniature scale:
25 Artists Creating Mesmerizing Miniature Art – It’s A Small World!
Frances Glessner Lee, "Burned Cabin," about 1944 to 1948. Collection of the Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
COURTESY OF THE OFFICE OF THE CHIEF MEDICAL EXAMINER, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND
An odd tidbit about miniatures:
Frances Glessner Lee, popularly known as “the mother of forensic investigation,” created 20 dollhouse crime scenes in the 1940s and 50s, which she called the nutshell studies of unexplained death. Learn more at mentalfloss.com
Last, but not least, check out this artist:
By Salavat Fidai Bedroom in Arles by Van Gogh painted on a matchbox
Salavat Fidai is a Russian sculptor who makes miniature sculptures out of pencil graphite. He began his professional career as a lawyer and transitioned to become a full-time artist during the 2013 economic crisis in Russia. In 2014, Fidai started creating miniature paintings on matchboxes, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, and grains of rice. Later that year, he began sculpting miniature figures out of pencil graphite.
