Daily Miniatures by Japanese Artist Tatsuya Tanaka

When children let their imagination run, even their food can become a plaything. Tanaka Tatsuya, an artist in Japan, never lost that wild imagination.
Since 2011, he has been engaged in his “miniature calendar” that uses miniature people to scale the environments he creates and form narratives between the objects. Although most of the scenes are of environments within our own experience, the artwork provides an interesting way for the viewer to consider their own scale and proportion.

“Everyone must have had similar thoughts at least once,” writes Tatsuya of his “Miniature Calendar” project. “Broccoli and parsley might sometimes look like a forest, or the tree leaves floating on the surface of the water might sometimes look like little boats. I wanted to take this way of thinking and express it through photographs, so I started to put together a “miniature calendar”.