Video: A miniature world in the middle of a big world. Photo series "Disparity"
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Equal to each other, people are only born and die. The rest of their lives they are forced to live in unequal conditions, and to fight an unequal battle for their place in the sun. The world is so big, and people are so small … An interesting art project is dedicated to this " Disparity"American photographer Christopher Boffoli, who decided to play on this inequality, showing the world tiny little people leading an ordinary, everyday life against the backdrop of huge fruits, vegetables, sweets … According to the photographer, the scale and size, comparison of people and things interested him from early childhood. Of course, the photographer's favorite book was the one that told about Gulliver's amazing adventures both in the land of the Lilliputians and among the giants. Imagining himself, small and defenseless, next to a giant portion of ice cream or a piece of chocolate cake, every sweet tooth would like to get to the giants. And the small toy figures that Christopher Boffoli uses in his productions are very lucky in this regard.
So, among cakes and muffins, oranges and bananas, juicy kebabs and fresh onions, toy people live ordinary lives, like many of us. They ride bicycles down banana slides, sunbathe on orange beaches, vacuum on chocolate tarts, dig up a creamy cupcake, play snowballs, and build a snowman in a thick layer of coconut on donuts. Probably, you and I would look the same if at the moment someone big and strong was looking at us from above. Funny little people surrounded by huge houses, trees, mountains, oceans …
Creative people often base their art projects on the ratio of sizes and scales, swapping places between small and large, presenting people as animals, and endowing animals with human abilities. And miniatures by Christopher Boffoli are one of the most interesting projects of this kind. You can get acquainted with his midgets in the world of huge objects from the "Disparity" series on the website of this art project.
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