This artist lets you hunt for his mini artworks on New York's streets

'It's a marketing thing but it is a fun one because it doesn't feel like one. I want to keep it like that, ' says Artist Steve Wasterval. Photo: AFP

Filmmaker Zack Obid trembles with excitement: he has just found a miniature work of art during a treasure hunt that an American artist organises every week in his Brooklyn neighbourhood.

Steve Wasterval estimates that in the last three years he has painted and hidden about 80 tiny landscape drawings of Greenpoint, an area with a large Polish community seen as increasingly hip in recent times with young creatives moving in.