(Previous post on the modestly-sized here)
Diem Chau carves crayons.
But that’s not all.
Saya Moriyasu brings Elie Nadelman-style high romance to pocket-sized figures.
Moriyasu’s gallery here.
Marita Dingus makes her small people from whatever is at hand.
Good work and fun,too. I started working small based on the size of my studio and apartment. I have done a few minis:collage and assemblage.
“The Blum Box” is on the Pollock-Krasner Foundation website, on their grantee gallery. My smallest piece, in a box that held 1″ nails. The
manufacturer, Blum, is also my “maiden” name.
It is much more difficult to work small than
large in terms of solving aesthetic problems, making a piece “work”.