Tanaka Tatsuya- Miniature Life Exhibition

                       

                     

Tanaka Tatsuya has started posting miniature images every day since 2011, calling it "Miniature Calendar." More than 2,000 images have been posted on his website. The idea came from a comment from one his followers, saying that ‘I want to see the miniature calendar everyday’, ending up upload one work per day, he mentioned it is a challenge for him to do but it pushes himself to do one thing because he feels enjoyable on what he is doing. All small models on this exhibition is his personal collections, he’s got more than three different sizes of same model, that’s why he could create such as stunning and delicate works.

                        

                      

I think Instagram is also the online platform you could spread your news to everyone, like this exhibition I know it because I’ve noticed that he shared the post regarding the exhibition. There was lovely introduction after the entrance, “While people become adults, they start to being afraid of trying new thing, staying in the comfort zone and sticking themselves into old perception, such as we know that book is for reading, we know clothing is for wearing, we know vegetables are our food. Children could spread their imagery, being creative, with their unlimited curious to see things, talking books to build a book building, dropping clothes on floor to create a view of grassland, placing vegetables to create the forest. Only when you change the perspective, you would find the fascinating things to regain your child liked vision. If you combine this thought with your mature idea, could it be possible to make those things come true? If you look the world around you with your humorous thinking, could it be possible to make you laugh?”

                           

                          

I like the cauliflower works he photographed, in the display area, you could see the model he used to work on, and you need closed up because there are lots of small happening within the cauliflower model. And each has the story in different position, which is a lovely way to be a child, observing everything we would like to know. By looking his works, taking back how we look like as children and the memory we’ve forgotten.

                           

                         

Reference:

• website: MINIATURE CALENDAR
• Tatsuya Tanaka: Small Wonders - Life Portrait in Miniature. Published by NIPPAN IPS Co., Ltd.

• tatsuya tanaka crafts intricate miniature calendar of everyday scenes