paper cuts and miniature disasters

Peter Callesen's art work is sweet yet thought provoking, his use of the everyday object A4 paper to create pieces that contain both humour and skillful sculpture. It's not origami but it points to it, it plays at the idea of two worlds a 3D and a 2D and how one can create the other, the transformation of a 2D object to a 3D. But it feels like one world is the looking glass of the other. Often the shape formed in 3D is referencing the 2D form but with a loaded commentary of destruction or opposite condition.

http://www.petercallesen.com/

Ive not been a big fan of miniature models with figures because they feel grotesque to me, I particulary have never like the Chapman Brothers work. However I find Thomas Doyles miniatures quite endearing and cinematic, to me they feel staged caging in glass a moment signifying a state of mind or observation on daily life. Most have a dark message beneath them and an impending doom. I like the way in his artists staement he talks about how his viewer observes the pieces as an 'all-seeing eye, looking down upon landscapes that dwarf and threaten the figures within.' 

I think his sketch book is pretty good too ^^ conveys his ideas nicely!