all of those people to stand,
exactly where you want them to make this picture? use mobile telephones?
walkie-talkies?
none of the above! seen from afar, Craig Alan’s celebrity portraits seem made
out of thousands of expertly placed paint dots, but as you draw nearer, you
notice that those dots are actually tiny detailed human figures,
Craig Alan’s “Populous” series was inspired by a bird’s eye view from his mother’s 6th story condo, in Orange Beach, Alabama,
He was watching the people down at the beach and photographing them when he noticed that their tiny figures forming patterns,
in one of his photographs the people appeared to have formed a eye, and the artist recalls that this was what first got his creative wheels turning,
He started spray-painting tiny human figures on white canvases, positioning them in such a way that they and their shadows formed detailed portraits of some history’s most iconic personalities, from Michael Jackson to the Joker, what a different take on a bird's eye view.
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