Small Scale, Big World

The dozens of artists and craftspeople featured in this volumecreate miniature representations of real-world scenes-everythingfrom housewares, such as a thumb-sized rice cooker, tostorefronts and cliffside dwellings suspended in test tubes, allthe way up to entire multi-story buildings, with every detail preservedinside and out. Each of these exquisite works tells an intriguingstory, encapsulating history, culture and memory, andelevating everyday items - the signage on the side of a garbagecan, a rusted downspout - to objects worthy of artistic representation,prompting us through this striking shift of scale to perceivethe world in whole new ways.Among the featured artists, Tatsuya Tanaka brings Japaneseiconography into his master work "Miniature Calendar," whileJoshua Smith from Australia, keeps streets and addresses andmemory alive by re-creating them in miniature, freezing them intime, complete with weeds and water stains. This book not onlydigs into the stories behind the works, but provides guidance forthose who are ready to try their own hand at mini crafts. Threemasters share their inspirations and techniques by revealing adetailed process of a single masterpiece.