A handmade miniature model that recreates the traditional New York style shop street scene.
The city is changing very fast, and it is all done unconsciously. The Ganzai shop I often went to when I was a child has slowly changed. The land becomes a convenience store chain that uses signature colors as the main identification, or restaurants that pay more attention to atmosphere decoration.
But people’s memories have a shelf life. When the original appearance of the city is gradually forgotten by people, the scenes of the past can be found wherever they go in the future.
When the well-known artist Randy Hage visited New York in the late 1990s, he was struck by the handwritten panels in front of the store, the graffiti on the walls, and even the He was deeply attracted by some damaged traces of time, so he began to use photos to record the original street scenes of New York City.
But as chain stores and restaurants slowly entered, when he returned to New York again, he found that he liked The street scene has slowly disappeared.
In order to completely preserve these precious memories, Age decided to use 1:12 scale models to recreate these small shops one by one.
Hage started in the SOHO area, and then gradually moved to the Bedford-Stuyvesant area in Brooklyn. Push forward, and now you may go further. Only in this way can you find those street scenes full of age.
