Lisa Swerling’s Glass Cathedrals

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!

Lisa Swerling is a Tufnell Park-based artist making miniature worlds in boxes called Glass Cathedrals. Inspired by the power of the miniature to communicate big ideas and emotions, she's spent nearly twenty years making thousands of artboxes - in Cape Town, California, and now London.

In her custom miniature portraits, Lisa gets the figures (and animals) to resemble real people in bespoke settings. They capture the most elusive and precious treasure of life -- memories and relationships.  Described as "little pockets of joy", 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.

Lisa’s art is shown all over the world, including art fairs in London, New York and Los Angeles. Glass Cathedrals are also part of Small is Beautiful (Paris, London, NYC, Milan) – the world’s biggest exhibition of miniature art.

www.glasscathedrals.com
Instagram: @glasscathedrals.com