Artists Create Elaborately Detailed Miniature Worlds For Their Snails

Artists, filmmakers photographers Aleia Murawski and Samuel Copeland create elaborately detailed miniature worlds for their pet snails. The dioramic designs include the high life, with limousines and champagne coupe beds, the lowbrow with paper-dragging bathrooms, the mundane with office work, the playful with a skateboard ride to the extraterrestrial with a visitation.

“We made a terrarium for them…and around the same time, we started making miniature scenes together. At first, we were keeping them as pets and just loved looking at them every day. Then we realized, the sets we were making were roughly snail-sized and we loved the idea of animating these rooms,” they said.

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Happy (almost) new year from my lil crew!!♥️ Also Froggo hates parties 😅

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Snail on holiday 🏝

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Driving off into the sunset 🐌🌆

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That Longing (decoy of) Desire ✨🏝✨

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hi! Free domestic shipping on our store this week. No code needed, will auto apply on snail print packs, posters, and hitachi wands !! (Also say hello to our mail delivery snail. This is one of our baby snails and is their very first shoot lol 😭😌💞)

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Snail, do you like green eggs and ham? 🐌🥚 Commission from @netflixfamily for the launch of their 2D animated adaptation of Dr. Seuss’ beloved book, “Green Eggs and Ham.” We were asked to create our own interpretation of the iconic dish to celebrate the launch of the series. This was such a fun project for us to be a part of — Genuinely excited to see this as 2D animation is a rare treasure these days, and this series looks beautiful and wonderfully weird. Thank you Netflix and @meetkvell for the opportunity!! Trailer for #GreenEggsAndHam series is in my bio <33 #ad

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That 4pm sunset

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Partners in crime 🐌🐌

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*Tin foil hat*

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Back to school for my 🐌🧪

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The littlest gamblers 💸🐌🎰 huge special thank you to @jasmineeec for sending us these mini slot machines!!! Best snail mail ever :,)💕 Made w Sam Copeland 💫

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I’ve always wanted one of these wacky wavy mini guys. They’re always trying to sell you mattresses or cars or cellphone plans, desperate for attention, flailing in the wind. Forever relatable 😅 Thank you for the gift @jill_tron 💕💕 made with sam!!

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So excited to have some mini rooms on view at @broccoli_mag festival in Portland May 31-June2 • A curious, colorful, cannabis-inflected world featuring two lil rooms inspired by the event 🐌🥒@broccoli_mag has tha link and more info 💞

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Me this weeek (from my forever fav project with @bullythemusic 🏀💕)

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They see me rollin 🎶🧀

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good morning 🥛♥️

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They love this game

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💞 New snail music video “Who Loves the Scum?” made with Sam Copeland for @losgrowlers !!! 🐌full video is in my bio :) can’t wait to hear what u think !!!♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ Xoxox

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Little love letters for snail friends 💌

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Me on friday night 🐌🦔

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Snail home for the holidays!! The Flintstones and The Jetsons and Roadrunner takeover for @getanimated 💞💞 It was so fun imagining the snails as the stars of these shows and recreating these sets with Sam!!! 🎁

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New snail poster!! Snalien Abduction 🛸💕 We wanted to recreate one of our fav videos from the year. We made a behind the scenes video for this, which we will be sharing soon. :) Thank you for supporting our snails and our art!! Means the world to us 🐌🌙

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Motivational self talk in the morning!! You will get thru this day. You are strong and in control. Let’s get this bread. 🐌🍞

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Just some snails trying to get away

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Snail Fam dinner for @bullythemusic 🥗🍤🍼 they eat better than i do🤷🏻‍♀️

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So excited to have a little feature in @numerorussia September issue “Office.” Where you will find my snail working late, taking a computer selfie break 🐌🖨 (if anyone has access to this issue, would love if u could send photos!!!) 💞

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Hey, This is Another Note to Myself, to Stop Getting In My Head and Worrying About What Something Looks Like, And Give Into the Process of Making Something. It Has Always Been Something That Made You Feel Good, Sad, Confused, So This is Really No Different. Stop Trying To Control These Steps. You Have Made Things In The Past That You're Proud of, And You Will Continue to Surprise Yourself. Every Time You Stop Yourself From Making Something Because You Think It Is Not Good Enough, You Become More of a Stranger to Yourself. Get To That Place Where You Make Something Small, And Then the Next. Keep Following Your Little Creative Gut Out Of Things. Open It Up When You Want To And When You Don't, Savor This Secret Ugly Mess Because There is Something Beautiful Brewing In Here Just Waiting To Come Out 🐌🍇

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Made some snail and flamingo posters!! ❣️❣️ Beefsworld.com

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Snail hover car 🐌🚗🛸 w sam copeland

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Something special coming soon, made w/ sam copeland for @bullythemusic 💕

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