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 my art.
I’m Lisa Swerling, an artist making tiny worlds in boxes called Glass Cathedrals. Inspired by the power of the miniature to communicate big ideas and feelings, over the last 22 years I’ve made thousands of Glass Cathedrals 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.
But my life’s delight is in making custom portraits for people, capturing what they hold most dear – people, places, animals, memories – inside a Glass Cathedral.
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