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I’m Lisa Swerling, an artist making miniature worlds in boxes called Glass Cathedrals. Inspired by the power of the miniature to communicate big ideas and emotions, I’ve spent twenty years making thousands of these ‘magical time-travel boxes’ – in Cape Town, California, and London.

Glass Cathedrals have been shown in galleries, museums and unusual locations around the world, from London’s Anthropologie Gallery, to the Exploratorium Science Museum in San Francisco,  during Colorado’s beloved Telluride Film Festival and most recently the Small is Beautiful  touring show – the world’s biggest exhibition of miniature art.

Whether commissioning a custom Glass Cathedral that captures your unique memory or relationship, or ordering an off-the-shelf design, Glass Cathedrals remind us that we are all the heroes of our own stories, and that finding delight in small moments is a superpower we can turn on in the blink of an eye.