Slinkachu is not a collective of artists nor is it a single, creatively-inspired mind. Slinkachu is a form of art in and of itself, which can be found adorning random street corners in London and several other major cities around the world. In essence, Slinkachu is amazing because it plays off the human need for story-telling and also toys whimsically with the limitations of perception. What is it, exactly? It’s the art of creating miniature human figurines and placing them in various contexts that are as evocative as evocative can be. Be it deers and does caught in the headlights, tiny people drawing drags out of over-sized cigarettes or… well, anything else the artists’ minds could think of, it’s essential that they are tiny and that they are hand-painted.
The main creative catalyst behind this art form is a twenty-eight year old male photographer based in the British capital. He does not identify as a pro photographer, but is, according to his own accounts, mostly self-taught. His ‘Little People Project’ was initiated in 2006 and has since take on gigantesque proportions (pun, of course, intended). The scope of the project is to explore the concepts of anonymity and loss, as well as the well-represented urban phobia of being lost in the big city. According to the artist himself, “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”.
(Source: The Beautifulist)
