Video: Small but smart: a toy train travels across Canada in Jeff Frisen's photo project
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Austrian writer Karl Kraus owns a famous aphorism: "Small stations are very proud that fast trains must pass them." But in The Canadian: Ghost Train Crossing Canada project by Jeff Friesen the opposite is true: a small train is proud to travel across an immense country. Huge ferns, wheat fields, giant stones and infinitely long wooden railings - these are not all the difficulties that the Canadian mini-train overcomes kilometer after kilometer.
As you might guess from the name of the train, the toy railroad runs through the picturesque waters and forests of Canada. Jeff Frisen jokes that just buying a train ticket and picking up a camera is too easy for him. It is much more interesting that Jeff himself took a tiny train with him on the journey, which can easily fit into a travel bag.
By the way, in his project, Jeff Frisen thought through everything to the smallest detail. The train shown in the photographs is nothing more than a miniature replica of the Streamliner train. In 1955, such a train ply the route between Montreal and Vancouver, today its "mini-double" again, tapping, rides on the rails, overcoming its toy route. The photos look so cute that you really want to believe in this miniature world in the middle of a big world. One gets the impression that a midget driver is about to show up at the nearest station, and Gulliver with a camera will smile at him affably.
By the way, on our website Kulturologiya.ru we have already written about other types of miniature transport. For example, about Lilliputian cars in an art project by a photographer named Gulliver Tei, as well as paper toy scooters created by Indonesian Dadik Triadi.
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