Legions of Tiny Men Infiltrate Croatia

Is Zagreb under a Leprechaun attack? If so, that race of mischief-loving fairies must have made a drastic wardrobe shift, because they've ditched green top hats and coattails in favor of the more stoic business-casual of the modern office world. No wonder they look so unhappy.

The miniaturized men were sculpted in the hands of Spanish artist Isaac Cordal, who recently took part in a guerrilla-culture festival in Croatia's capital for the MUU street-art museum. (Don't go looking for the museum's physical address, by the way, as its more of an ephemeral project to spruce up boring neighborhoods.) As he's done for past outdoor exhibits in Brussels, Barcelona and Berlin, in Zagreb the artist first used molds to forge tiny cement bodies in different positions and gave them a coat of paint for clothes. Then he headed out with a sack of the homunculi and stuck them into surprising or funny places in the city's crumbling architecture, like in between an apartment building's bricks where they peek out like storm-wary sparrows.