The World of Miroslav Pecho

You're looking at my very first 'shadow box', and at the same time the very first miniatures project I ever did.

Completed less than a year ago, in Feb 2017, and titled "The World of Miroslav Pecho", it was to be a tribute to the Slovak artist whose work I admire.

Apart from his gloomy style, which agrees with my own taste, I deeply admire his energy and productivity. In a time when I was going through a prolonged period of deep artistic hibernation, Miroslav managed -without him even knowing it- to pull me out of it, and get me going. 

Inspired by his work, I decided that I had spent too much time 'sleeping', and it was time for me to rise. And so I did!  The shadow box was presented to Miroslav as a personal tribute to him and his work. It depicts a representation of his studio, or rather of how I imagined it to be, including replica's of those paintings which I like the most, and he was very impressed with it. 

The rest, as they say, is history.

The Shadow box

 The World of Miroslav Pecho - Front view

  

Self-made easel

Detail of the painter's tools. 

'Helicopter view' of the lower left corner

 

The paper tube contains a H.R. Giger artwork reproduction

A copy of The Necronomicon, by Abdul Alhazred

This image and below: scribbles inspired by the work of the Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch

A painting behind the easel, hidden underneath a piece of cloth

"The World of Miroslav Pecho" (2017, shadow box, 12x7,5x3 inch). Added to Miroslav's private collection.

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