"Star Wars" is like an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together.
OK, maybe it's not that important to every living thing in the galaxy, but the passionate devotion the film series has generated over 39 years is a phenomenon, no doubt about it. The freedom with which material from the sci-fi epic has been appropriated and reused by fans is also extraordinary, especially when you think about the litigation that would normally ensue if you messed around with copyrighted images.
Cedric Delsaux's "Dark Lens" series, at the Diesel Art Gallery in Tokyo's Shibuya district, uses characters and machinery from the Star Wars franchise, which are expertly inserted into real-world settings. The Millennium Falcon can be seen hanging from a crane on the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, battle droids sit in a busted-up Buick, while imperial guards hold a secret meeting with spy drones on the top of an office building in Sao Paulo. George Lucas has personally taken to the artist's appropriation very positively, and that may be because Delsaux's work exhibits the same level of technical perfectionism for which Lucas himself is renowned.