This series started with model figures — HO layout work needs a lot of 1:87 people, so I bought extras to photograph.
The first three put them in a real moss box; asparagus fern becomes a giant tree, and the box edge is left deliberately in frame — not to pretend there is no box, but to remind you that you are looking at a framed world. Same idea as the 3×4 m layout in Works, and the Tōkaidō Main Line compressed into twelve square metres: one problem at different scales.
The last four are a 2023 extension — the same figures on an Arduino board, working among electronic parts. An attempt to stitch the Photography and Works universes together. Capacitors and resistors become industrial ruins; the MCU chip is a glass curtain-wall tower; workers scaled down eighty times walk the site.
So this series sits as a soft counterpoint to the aerial volcano in P—001 — there, a real mountain from a kilometre away; here, a set dressed as a mountain from thirty centimetres. Opposite direction, opposite scale, same question.
