The Global Street Art of Slinkachu

The U.K. street artist who previously brought you the Inner City Snail Project — is no more invested in arguing about the causes behind the modern condition than he is in arguing for “solutions” to it. What he’s interested in is expressing the solitary, uncertain side of contemporary life — and, it seems, inviting people both to recognize themselves in this and to share in some common self-deprecating irony about it. For the Little People Project, which he started back in 2006, Slinkachu began remodeling and painting miniature model-train-set figures, leaving them on the streets of cities around the world and photographing them. “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,” he says. “The scenes I set up … 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 humor. I want people to be able to empathize with the tiny people in my works.”

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