Creating a scale replica of an interior space is now a mere matter of setting up the right kind of camera and pressing "print" -- but Joe Fig does it the old-fashioned way. Or at least the especially hard way. He creates one-inch to one-foot scale miniatures of artists and their work spaces by hand, and in exacting detail.
For Fig, each piece is a kind of personal meditation on the creative process itself, a chance to explore in depth the environments where his favorite artists make the magic happen.
“Most painters have a table where they lay all their paints out and their brushes, and over years how they do that lends itself to represent some of their personality,” Fig says. “I was interested in the creative process, and how their studios were set up to help them with their own process, looking at the studio as a form of portraiture.”
