imagined-community

On Friday, I spotted this art car parked not too far from the Starbucks on Church Street in Cambridge. Nearly everyone that walked by gave the vehicle a once over. Covered with plastic animals, cartoon characters, human figures, and creatures from another planet, the car had a weird David Lynchian vibe. A little scary, I must say. Tried to track down the car’s origins online to no avail…

(Want more art cars? There is an Art Car Fest in the San Francisco area at the end of September. And for those who prefer their art cars on ice, there is Minnesota’s Art Cars on Ice.)

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Pretend for a moment that you standing in the lobby of some snazzy, glass high-rise office building waiting for an elevator. The button for the 1st floor lights up and you move forward. Just before you step into the elevator you look down and see a tiny little ceramic person poised to enter the elevator along with you. What would you do? Laugh? Stop? Keep going? Reach down and grab the little person?

If you haven’t visited Little People — a tiny street art project blog yet, I highly recommend that you do. There are no photos of little people in glass high-rises, but the little people do appear in a lot of other places, enduring some trying, even downright awful, experiences. Unfortunately, the creator of the little people, Slinkachu, doesn’t reveal much about himself or his project. Does Slinkachu actually leave his little people about London for unsuspecting city folk to stumble upon? Or does he just photograph his little people in various sites?

The Little People project is ripe for discussion and I’m surprised that more people haven’t commented on it. Perhaps no one has actually seen one of the little people?

I have to say the whimsy of the project really appeals to me. How could a person spotting such an odd little thing in the city not by surprised by delight?

And then there is the entire social commentary angle — How do the little people reflect our own Lilliputian existence?

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