When we gaze down from a plane at city lights at night, we feel like giants. Then, looking up at the stars, we feel like tiny specks amongst them. That a person can feel like a god and like a speck of stardust at one time, in one body and mind – what marvels us humans are!
This is the feeling I aim for in Glass Cathedrals.
I’m Lisa Swerling, and Glass Cathedrals are tiny worlds in boxes that I’ve been making over the last 22 years. Inspired by the power of the miniature to communicate big ideas and feelings, I’ve made thousands of these artworks in Cape Town, California, and now London. They’ve been exhibited all over the world, at art fairs and galleries and also on a cruise ship (imagine! such tiny things on such a big ship!), in bookshops and science museums, film and literary festivals.
I delight in making custom portraits for people, capturing what they hold most dear – people, places, animals, memories – inside a Glass Cathedral.
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