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Artist creates miniature scenes showing life in Taiwan

Sunday, 17 June 2018 6:20 PM [ Last Update: Sunday, 17 June 2018 6:23 PM ]

Artist creates miniature scenes showing life in Taiwan.

An interior designer from Taipei, Hank Cheng, has been creating remarkably realistic model street scenes influenced by his life in an attempt to preserve his memories for the future and share them with his 32,000 followers on Instagram.

Cheng's first miniature model, created over three years ago, was based on a restaurant he used to visit while studying in Japan. He has since tried to push his boundaries in intricacy by creating smaller and smaller models.

Although Cheng has participated in several international competitions with his creations, the most important reward for him is the process of making and appreciating his artworks. He says immersing himself in the "small people world" of his creations, and turning them into something that attract peoples' affection, helps him relax.

Cheng sometimes spends up to twelve hours a day on his art and says that although the minute detail work can be excruciatingly boring, it is always worth it in the end.

While some of the vehicles used in Cheng's street scenes are bought in shops, all the buildings and small details like the magazines and the furniture for his model houses are created from scratch.

(Source: Reuters)

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