Miniature London Street Art by Mexican artist Pablo Delgado

The last few months have seen the streets of East London populated with a series of miniature street art doorways installed at street level by a mystery artist.

Mexican street artist Pablo Delgado

Despite some initial confusion over the artists' identity as to Pedro or Pablo, the work has now been credited to Mexican street artist Pablo Delgado.

These tiny photocopied pasted-up street art doorways appeared to be hand-colored and were at one point popping up around Shoreditch faster than people could photograph them. It was like a treasure hunt and there was a scramble among people to find and photograph all the artworks first.

"I started downloading images of doors from around the world and I worked with them and pasted them onto some walls," Pablo Delgado says in this interview with The Guardian. "It began because I felt claustrophobic at home. I live in a small place and see doors as an exit to a different world. These little doors give you more space for your imagination, the chance to wonder what's behind them."

Miniature Street Art Scenes in London

In recent weeks the London-based street artist has continued installing miniature street artworks but has moved on from the little doors and has started creating tiny street art scenes featuring a collection of various characters, objects and animals from pimps to sex workers, Royal Guards to Jack The Ripper and a man walking a giraffe.

Again as with the doorway artworks, these miniature street art pieces are all only a few inches high and have been hand-colored and pasted up with the clever addition of matching drop shadows painted directly onto the pavement with black paint.

There is a great sense of fun to these street art pieces and they continue to bring a smile to our faces when we stumble upon a new one here in London.

Here is a selection of our favorites street scenes from the artist that we were fortunate enough to discover, check them out below and let us know your favorite?

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Pablo Delgado — Miniature Street Art in Shoreditch, London

Ephemeral Street Art

Due to the ephemeral nature of wheat-pasted street art, many of the pieces featured in this post have been heavily weathered and aged by the elements and for the most part, all that remains visible of the works are the painted shadows on the street, if you are lucky you might find a piece still fully intact.

Check out some of the artists' other street pieces in this second post we have shared titled: Pablo Delgado's London street artwork.

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