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Japanese art duo creates playful installations using toy train tracks


If you have some plastic toy train tracks at home perhaps you'd like to take a stab at transforming them into one of these installations by Osaka-based art duo Paramodel. Formed in 2001 by Yasuhukio Hayashi and Yusuke Nakano, Paramodel creates graffiti-like patterns on any surface: not only on the walls and ceilings of a gallery or the floors of a public bath house, but even on the water surface of a pond. Remarkable.






[h/t: Spoon & Tamago]
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