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The Miniature Creations of Mozu

Mozu may be just 20 years old, but the artist is already crafting awe-inspiring miniature worlds. Works like "The Stairs of the Dwarf" take four months to complete. The artist’s recreations of his bedroom, telephone poles, and “my working desk” show a knack for recreating the everyday in diorama format.

Mozu may be just 20 years old, but the artist is already crafting awe-inspiring miniature worlds. Works like “The Stairs of the Dwarf” take four months to complete. The artist’s recreations of his bedroom, telephone poles, and “my working desk” show a knack for recreating the everyday in diorama format.

On his first project: “When I was a sophomore in high school, I made my own diorama for the first time,” he says, as translated. “The model is a genuine my room. All handmade , the scale is 1/6 , the main material is Plastic board, paper and tree. Production was following year (2015), a friend Twitter was introduced me to this work, in overnight “40,000 Likes” and the explosive spread, the presence of the I and the work was anonymous is to stretch across the country . In the following week I will be introduced with three TV programs and it will be my masterpiece.”

See more of his projects below.

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