Mini Bookroom Since the 1970's Shannon Moore has been making small things. Furniture, containers, various scenes and books have all fallen under her miniaturist touch. Here's a taste: Bookbox: Golden Home 9 1/8" x 7 3/4" x 10 1/2" Inside view of Golden Home Bookbox: Blue Britannica. 11 1/2" x 8 1/2" x 11 1/8" And check out the jewel called The Potting Shed, it's a biblio-diorama! side view rear view front view Moore's website where there are a number of bookboxes and scenes available for sale. Previously on Book Patrol: The Really Small World of Tim Sidford The Return of Mother Nature: The...
The Return of Mother Nature: The Miniature World of Lori Nix
Circulation Desk, 2012Lori Nix things big and works small. Her project "The City", which began in 2005, seeks to recreate in miniature everyday urban spaces in a post apocalyptic world. The people are gone and what remains are these deteriorating spaces and their ever-changing relationship with the natural world. Nix says:I have imagined a city of our future, where something either natural or as the result of mankind, has emptied the city of it's human inhabitants. Art museums, Broadway theaters, laundromats and bars no longer function. The walls are deteriorating, the ceilings are falling in, the structures barely stand, yet Mother Nature is slowly...