Model maker and photographer Frank Kunert explores the "absurdity of life" through his meticulous architectural models with a twist.
The German artist's handmade miniatures recreate seemingly normal scenes that, upon further inspection, reveal a surreal scenario.
Climbing Holiday features a hotel that's a scramble to stay in
In Under The Bridge, a support column for a motorway flyer has been converted into a sweet little townhouse, and in Climbing Holidays a roadside motel is accessible only via a pylon laddered with rungs.
"It all starts with an idea that deals with the absurdity of life," Kunert told Dezeen.
"These ideas develop from playing around with words and phrases. Communication and the sometimes rather weird ways of how people deal with each other is a never-ending topic in my work," he added. A house doubles as infrastructure in Under the Bridge
Kunert finds black comedy by exaggerating the indignities of urban living for his models, which he makes from everyday materials.
In One Bedroom Apartment, a doorway opens on to a cupboard-sized home with a mattress wedged at an angle over a toilet, while a cute balcony with trees and a parasol juts out incongruously from the side of a power station belching pollution in Small Paradise.
For a Place In The Sun, he uses balconies to illustrate life for the haves and the have-nots, where a shiny new development has an outdoor terrace that cantilevers over their shabby neighbour's own balcony bel...