Huge.

Imagine you are tiny, smaller than your little finger, and your creator has not blessed you with the power of movement. A giant beast has just laid eyes on you and is making its way towards you at a synthetic-hair-raising pace (if only you were the size of a normal human, you would just be looking down at a fucking annoying poodle). Fear is in your tiny, plastic eyes. You can do nothing as the woollen juggernaut opens its cavernous jaws and easily, and without thinking, slurps you into the bowels of his warm, saliva-slathered mouth.

These are but one of the inherent dangers of enlisting to become one of London based artist Slinkachus miniature bastions of satirical resistance to the monotony, loneliness and banality of modern day city life. His loyal subjects, often sent on kamikaze missions, for the greater artistic good have now been installed all around Europe, in London, Manchester, Stavanger (Norway), Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Barcelona, Athens, Marrakech and Grottaglie in Italy.

"My 'Little People Project' started in 2006. It involves the remodelling and painting of miniature model train set characters, which I then place and leave on the street. It is both a street art installation project and a photography project. 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. The scenes I set up, more evident through the photography, and the titles I give these scenes aim to reflect the loneliness and melancholy of living in a big city, almost being lost and overwhelmed. But underneath this, there is always some humour. I want people to be able to empathise with the tiny people in my works."

check it out on issue 6 of t-squat . com