A quickfire #urbanart project; a little bucolic diorama on the lid of a box of cheese triangles.
The model was constructed using a sheet of model railway grass paper, which I augmented with a plastic cow, a pebble as a rock, some tissue paper for grass, and the finishing touch of coloured PVA as a fresh cow dropping. The scale and absurdity of the piece were deliberately chosen: a pastoral scene trapped within a commercial object, a miniature landscape hidden within everyday consumption.
I created the piece with the intention of depositing it onto a supermarket shelf for an unsuspecting member of the public—or staff—to find
There’s an element of surprise, of playful disruption, in the encounter: a tiny moment of whimsy interrupting the mundane routines of shopping. In a way, the diorama acts as a micro-narrative, inviting the viewer to imagine a world where the pastoral coexists with the packaged and the commercial, if only for a fleeting glance.
It’s a small experiment in scale, context, and delight: a miniature intervention that transforms the banal into a stage for the imagination. The joy, I hoped, would be in the discovery—the absurdity of a cow dropping nestled atop a snack, the fleeting amusement, and the gentle reminder that art can exist anywhere, even on the lid of a cheese triangle box.
Client: Self-led
input: art direction, making
