Small Worlds (17 Photos)

A home inside a missing brick. A neighborhood painted along a curb.

A hole becomes a cave, an earbud becomes a speaker, and a twig becomes a mouse’s perch. These 17 works range from miniature street scenes and tiny installations to animals assembled from natural materials.

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🪟 Nadine and the One Good Window — By David Zinn

Nadine rests beside a potted purple flower in a gap in the brickwork. Zinn uses the recess as a room, with its lower edge becoming a windowsill. The surrounding bricks show just how little space this home occupies.

More: More Chalk Art by David Zinn

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🏘️ Tiny Homes — By Apolo Torres in São Paulo, Brazil 🇧🇷

Tiled roofs, doors and small windows run along the face of a curb. Apolo Torres paints the houses to fit its shallow height, making the pavement above them look like a vast rooftop.

💡 Nerd Fact: This work belongs to Sem Rampa, Calçada é Muro—“Without a ramp, a sidewalk is a wall.” The project used curb paintings to draw attention to barriers faced by wheelchair users.

More: More Art from the Sidewalk Project

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🦆 Clarence’s Little Pond — By David Zinn

Clarence has a pond all to himself. Zinn draws the water onto a small stone, leaving the surrounding grass and clover to form its banks. A few ripples make the yellow duck look perfectly at home.

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🐇 Rabbit and Daisy — By Hannah Bullen-Ryner

One daisy is almost shoulder-high beside this rabbit. Soft feathers and small pieces of plants form its face, chest and ears, while moss gathers around its feet. The surrounding materials become both the animal and its little garden.

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🥫 Reduce, Reuse, Retreat — By David Zinn

Norma has found a snug retreat inside a tin can. Its open lid is a real gas utility cover; Zinn draws the striped sides and the little face beneath it. Even a small pavement fitting can become a home.

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🐭 Tiny Harvest Mouse — By Hannah Bullen-Ryner

A tiny mouse perches on a twig between blackberries and white flowers. Bullen-Ryner assembles the animal from found natural materials, letting the surrounding stems and leaves become its thicket.

More: More Art Made from Nature by Hannah Bullen-Ryner

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🐘 Elephant Friend — By Golsa Golchini

A girl reaches toward an elephant formed by the exposed gray surface beneath the plaster. Its head, trunk and legs follow the broken edges, while the stone ledge gives both figures a place to stand.

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🔦 Tiny Explorers — By Slinkachu

Two miniature figures approach a dark opening in a wall. At their scale, the rough rim becomes a cave entrance and the narrow ledge becomes the ground beneath their feet.

💡 Nerd Fact: Slinkachu remodels and paints model railway figures, then places, photographs and leaves them in the street. He began working with miniatures in 2006.

More: More Miniature Scenes by Slinkachu

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⛵ Tiny Tall Ship — By JPS

A tall ship sits at the foot of a wall, its red hull meeting the real water below. The reflection completes the scene, giving this tiny painted vessel an expanse of water to sail across.

More: More Street Art by JPS

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🌋 The Dragon and the Lava Lamp — By David Zinn

Ignatius has found a lamp almost as tall as he is. Zinn builds its shape around two water covers, then draws a green dragon beside it, turning a patch of pavement into a tiny living room.

💡 Nerd Fact: The lava lamp grew out of a two-liquid egg timer that Edward Craven Walker saw in a Dorset pub. He experimented with cocktail and orange-squash bottles before launching the Astro lamp in 1963.

More: More Chalk Art by David Zinn

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🧺 Laundry Day — By Golsa Golchini

A woman leans from a window, reaching toward the peeling surface below. White flakes become rows of washing, with the uneven edges suggesting shirts and sheets hanging across the wall.

More: More Small Street Scenes by Golsa Golchini

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🚗 Cliffhanger — By JPS

A red car noses down a narrow strip of rock. JPS follows the stone’s sloping edge, turning a small painted vehicle and a few sharp fractures into a precarious mountain road.

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🏢 Smithfield Meat Market — By EVOL in London, UK 🇬🇧

Windows and balconies cover a group of concrete barriers, turning them into a compact housing estate. EVOL’s London intervention was installed at Smithfield Market, where Street Art London photographed it in November 2011. Stencils and paste-ups bring the details of apartment buildings down to street-furniture scale.

More: More Views of EVOL’s Miniature City

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🌱 A Quiet Table — By Slinkachu

A man sits alone at a picnic table tucked among grass and twigs. At his scale, the blades behind him rise like tall reeds, and an ordinary patch of ground becomes a quiet clearing.

More: More Little People by Slinkachu

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🎸 Street Music — By Slinkachu

One discarded earbud is enough for this guitarist’s entire sound system. The little figure plays beside its mesh speaker, while a bicycle wheel in the background gives away the scale of the pavement concert.

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🎮 A Mario Level on a Door — By Pappas Pärlor

A rusty blue door becomes a Mario level, complete with floating bricks, a mushroom and a green pipe. The bead characters spread across the metal panels, making the gap between them feel like the next obstacle.

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🗝️ A Secret Zelda Dungeon — By Pappas Pärlor

Link has found a dungeon beneath a wooden wall. A tiny doorway, two statues and a treasure chest turn this patch of foundation into the start of an adventure, with real grass growing around the entrance.

More: More Retro Game Street Art by Pappas Pärlor

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