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# My LEGO Wall - From Work Tool to Art Installation
- URL: https://www.gchicco.com/my-lego-wall/
- Published: 2019-01-12T16:38:17.000Z
- Updated: 2025-03-09T10:35:50.000Z
- Author: Gianfranco Chicco
- Tags: Blog

If you've visited my home in the last 5+ years or had a video call with me, you've noticed my LEGO Wall. It's a conversation starter for adults and a magnet for kids.

What you might not know is how it got started. Yes, I'm a long time AFOL (Adult Fans of LEGO) and was lucky to have many sets as a child, which my brother later expanded. But my current collection began because I'm not a good illustrator.

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I started buying LEGO minifigures for client pitches while running my experience design practice. Hiring designers and illustrators to visualise concepts was expensive, so I took photos of minifigures representing people in the experience, explaining scenes with captions and speech bubbles.

For this reason, I sought out minifigures that resembled "regular" people rather than fantastic creatures or superheroes. The LEGO store's build-your-own-figure option was perfect for getting the characters I needed.

At the time I was going through a rather minimalist nomadic lifestyle and it was difficult to carry all the pieces with me, so I went on buying them and storing them here and there. Around those years LEGO started issuing special edition "mystery bag" figures and I got hooked by those too. When I moved to London and finally gathered all my belongings, I fixed a couple of LEGO baseplates to my living room wall to display the characters I'd collected. As my collection grew, I adjusted what had become an art installation rather than a business tool.

My LEGO Wall now comprises 420 minifigures, with several more stored for an eventual expansion (I need bigger walls!).

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/01/d0/01d08198-2c67-4cdc-a041-7d7c7d50e709/content/images/2025/03/20190112-lego-wall-DSCF5460s.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/01/d0/01d08198-2c67-4cdc-a041-7d7c7d50e709/content/images/2025/03/20190112-lego-wall-DSCF5450s.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/01/d0/01d08198-2c67-4cdc-a041-7d7c7d50e709/content/images/2025/03/20190112-lego-wall-DSCF5462s.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/01/d0/01d08198-2c67-4cdc-a041-7d7c7d50e709/content/images/2025/03/home-DSCF3790-20180321s.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/01/d0/01d08198-2c67-4cdc-a041-7d7c7d50e709/content/images/2025/03/20190112-lego-wall-DSCF5451s.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/01/d0/01d08198-2c67-4cdc-a041-7d7c7d50e709/content/images/2025/03/20190112-lego-wall-DSCF5459s.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/01/d0/01d08198-2c67-4cdc-a041-7d7c7d50e709/content/images/2025/03/20190112-lego-wall-DSCF5441s-1.jpg)

Some of the characters are probably NSFW :)