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Danny Cortes’ Hip-Hop Scenes In Miniature Form Amazes Art World

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: YUKI IWAMURA / Getty New York artist, Danny Cortes, has gained massive acclaim for depicting striking scenes from Hip-Hop & popular culture in miniature form. For Danny Cortes, his artwork is an homage to the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn that he grew up in and all of the nostalgia that’s associated with it. The miniature collectibles he crafts by hand are a look at “the little things that we pass by every day” from the recreation of the nearby Chinese takeout restaurant Ho May Kitchen to one of his first creations – a white commercial ice box that’s often seen outside delis and bodegas in the city right down to the graffiti on its sides. “If we take the time to notice we are surrounded by inspiration,” he says on his website. Other works also inc...