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# Tiny Food and Tiny Galaxies
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/tiny-art/
- Published: 2012-04-20T14:47:55.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:48:55.000Z
- Description: LOS ANGELES — I've been noticing more tiny things in my computer these days. No, they're not ants or crumbs. It's art, folks. Just art writ small.
- Author: AX Mina
- Tags: Opinion, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 06:51 (2012, 2013, part 1)

![Shay Aaron's tiny meals are perfect for food lovers watching their figure. Image via Colossal.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2012/04/mini-5-e1334779788176.jpg)

Shay Aaron's tiny meals are perfect for food lovers watching their figure. (image via Colossal)

LOS ANGELES — I’ve been noticing more tiny things in my computer these days. No, they’re not ants or crumbs. It’s art, folks. Just art writ small.

Colossal recently [featured](http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2012/04/incredible-miniature-food-sculptures/?ref=hyperallergic.com) the mini food sculptures of Tel Aviv artist [Shay Aaron](http://www.facebook.com/ShayAaronMiniatures). The sculptures, shot at 1:12 scale, look exquisitely detailed, and Aaron even [sells versions of them](http://www.facebook.com/ShayAaronMiniatures) as earrings, necklaces and pendants. A [DIY kit of polymer clay canes](http://www.etsy.com/listing/83314142/tomato-cucumber-and-salami-polymer-clay?ref=hyperallergic.com) lets you assemble your own tiny salad of tomato, cucumber and salami, among other foods. It sounds like the best way to have your cake and eat it too … if you can just find where it is.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2012/04/simpsons-pinhead-6701-175.jpg)

Homer choking Bart on a pin head (via wired.com/underwire) (click to enlarge)

And then [The Fox is Black](http://www.thefoxisblack.com/2012/04/17/chronoscapes-by-pery-burge-like-tiny-abstract-universes/?ref=hyperallergic.com) turned me on to the work of [Pery Burge](http://www.chronoscapes.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com), who photographs chronoscapes, swirls of materials like glitters, oils and water. She shoots them with a macro lens, making the tiny tides look more like galaxies or nebulae. [Burge writes in her artist statement](http://www.chronoscapes.com/artists-s/?ref=hyperallergic.com) that a residency program has even brought her into the realm of soap films using special equipment.

There’s nothing new about tiny art, of course. Hrag pointed me to the [tiny Incredible Hulk](http://www.wired.com/underwire/2009/08/microsculptors-incredible-hulk-fits-in-eye-of-needle/?ref=hyperallergic.com), who fits inside the eye of a needle. And Core77 (which I contribute to) took a look at [tiny houses](http://www.core77.com/blog/architecture/tiny%5Fhouse%5Fthe%5Fmovie%5F22183.asp?ref=hyperallergic.com), an effort to reduce one’s carbon footprint. What have you seen in this genre, dear reader? (Or not seen, as the case may be.)