有想過若人類縮小後，我們的視覺看世界會是怎樣嗎？田中達也將每日都會見到的日常小物，加上模型人偶，打造成微型小人國，原來換個角度，無聊的生活也可以變得很有趣。
Have you ever wondered what the world would be like if human shrink? Tatsuya Tanaka is an artist who uses the small things we see in everyday life and dolls to create one another miniature wonderland. From another perspective, our boring and never-changing life can be very interesting too.
田中達也出生於熊本縣，是一名日本「微型攝影師」，運用生活物品和微型人偶建構出一個個有趣的微型世界，並不定期在社交媒體上發佈作品，廣受歡迎。
Tatsuya Tanaka, born in Kumamoto Prefecture, is a Japanese “micro photographer” who uses everyday objects and miniature figures to create interesting miniature worlds. His works are irregularly posted on social media and are widely popular.
他不斷觀察周遭事物，習慣了看到什麼物件就聯想到它像什麼，例如像樹林的西蘭花、像秋天公園的雞蛋三明治、像健身設施的文具等等。他間中會讓他的兒子給意見，希望以小孩子最純粹角度檢視作品，創造出最有趣、最單純的畫面。
He constantly observes his surroundings to get used to be whenever he sees things and be able to associate them with what they look like. For example, broccoli as the woods, egg sandwiches as an autumn park, stationeries as gym equipment etc. He would even ask his son for advice occasionally. He hopes that to create the most interesting and simple images by examining the work from the purest point of view of a child.
東京奧運現在進行得如火如荼，但礙於疫情，想要觀看賽事亦只能在家中隔著屏幕看直播。製作作品時特別注重「季節感」的田中達也，近日發佈了一組名為「防疫下觀戰」的微型作品，將防疫用品打造成各項賽事場地，讓口罩化身成游泳池、田徑賽道、跳高杆和排球網，微型選手們各就各位，為比賽作出最後準備…
The Tokyo Olympics is now ongoing in full swing. But because of the epidemic, people who want to watch the games will have to watch them live at home. Tatsuya Tanaka, who paid special attention to the sense of season in his works, recently released a group of miniature works called “Tokyo 2020”, which transformed epidemic prevention supplies into various game venues. He transformed masks into swimming pools, track and field courses, high jump bars and even volleyball nets. You can see that the miniature athletes took their places to make final preparations for the competition…
More about 田中達也 Tatsuya Tanaka:
https://www.instagram.com/tanaka_tatsuya/?hl=zh-hk
https://miniature-calendar.com
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