Sweep it Under the Carpet

Posted on 10/12/2016 by Tobias M. Schiel

This is my contribution for Thursday’s Special at Paula’s Lost in Translation: Conceptual Photography. The idiom is the same in German, by the way: “Etwas unter den Teppich kehren.”

10 thoughts on “Sweep it Under the Carpet”

restlessjo 22/12/201620:17 Reply

Made me smile, in a wry sort of way. 🙂 Wishing you joy this Christmas, Tobias, and a healthy, happy New Year.
Heyjude 19/12/201600:38 Reply

Haha… brilliant. I love this one!
lynnwiles 10/12/201619:18 Reply

Love it.
1. tms 11/12/201609:22
  
  Thank you, Lynn!
Paula 10/12/201618:20 Reply

😆 I adore your creativity, Tobias. How big are these miniature figures?
1. tms 11/12/201609:37
  
  Thanks, Paula! The scale given by the producer is 1:87, which means that a person of 174 cm height would be about 2 cm in miniature. Which almost always seems to be the case with the figures I use. I just read about this “HO” scale on Wikipedia: It seems to be an international standard for model railways.
2. Paula 11/12/201616:53
  
  A very valuable info, Tobias .) And I thought you were going to take out a measuring tape to measure them 😉
3. tms 11/12/201616:55
  
  I did. To find out if I had the math right…
4. Paula 11/12/201616:57
  
  😀 Thank you 🙂 So, were the originals 174 cm tall or taller? 😉
5. tms 11/12/201617:51
  
  Various … the little people are not very different from real people in that respect.