A stretch of road in Margate, a seaside town in East Kent, England, looks just like a painting with its rows of quaint brick houses.
One house adds a surrealist touch because of its strange façade—the front of the house appears to be ‘sliding’ down into the front yard.
This is the work of Alex Chinneck, who took a derelict house and turned it into a piece of art called ‘From the Knees of My Nose to the Belly of my Toes’.
He replaced the exterior of the dilapidated house with a sloping frontage, turning its disintegration into an architectural marvel.
“I like the contradiction of taking a subject that's dark or depressing or bleak, something like dereliction which suggests something quite negative socially but also aesthetically, and delivering a playful experience within that context,” said Chinneck.
[via Dezeen and Alex Chinneck]