Tiny Dioramas inside Walnuts

Amazing walnut carvings.. 👌 pic.twitter.com/H8YbOjqOe2

— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) October 14, 2022

These dioramas are attributed to xiujun1314, a user of Douyin, a Chinese-language social network that I gather is identical to TikTok. The artist hollows out walnut halves with a craft knife and adds miniature hinges to allow them to easily open and close. Tiny homes exist inside. They're cozy due to space limitations, but full of useful furniture and homey decorations. Lights provide illumination for those cold nights when you want to crawl inside your shell and shut out the world.

And perhaps the rent is, at least temporarily, affordable.