ittle People is a project of street art and photography was born in London in 2006 by Slinkachu. Poetic, hand made, really beautiful, it’s tiny underground installations where everyday people carry the sets describing the urban scene. The Little People are born with the desire to reflect and to reflect on the feeling of loneliness and melancholy that can be generated living in a big city : looking at the skyscrapers that make up the typical landscape of a metropolis. Always with a backdrop of humour and empathy that allows us to identify with the characters. Another good project is “The Inner City Snails”; snails are decorated and then left free to continue their work around London: a satire of street art and our desire to cover every surface with graffiti, symbols, advertising. Also, the Little People have been collected in a book that contains the most beautiful photo set, Little People in the City & The Street Art of Slinkachu.
“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 empathise with the tiny people in my works. In 2008 I started the ‘Inner City Snail’ project, involving the decoration of snails that I find around London. After decoration, the snails are then placed back, free to go about their business in the city. In many ways similar in theme to the ‘Little People Project’, Inner City Snail can also be seen as a satire of street art and, more generally, our need to cover every available surface of our cities with graffiti, signage and advertising” ( Slinkachu )
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