Little People in the City - Slinkachu

The photographic traces collected in this book, capturing the evanescent existence of the diminutive in the great and troubling city, have all the power of "Gulliver's Travels" to impose upon us a realization of the asinine pride we take in the mere fact of comparison. Or rather: the asinine pride that derives from our environment and ourselves being to scale with each other. The built environment is an outgrowth of social form--Schelling's 'frozen music'--and thus an endlessly repeated sample of the same old tune: human domination and submission, leading to individual alienation.

I love this book. It is a small, and very reasonably priced, art photography book. The artist places miniature figurines throughout the city environment of London. You can see an example of the size in the cover photograph of a man protecting his daughter from an actual dead bee on a sidewalk. The book displays side-by-side photographs from the scene from a human perspective and closeups to give a perspective of the miniature people.

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The art is inventive provoking both deep thoughts and humor. My first reaction is too smile and then to view the city from a new point of view--that of people the size of small insects. This books works as much great art that challenges our perspective view of our world. It looks so simple, even childlike, but I find myself wanting to look at this book over and over. It makes me look at the world a little differently, which may one of the highest compliments for an artist.