The miniature has the capacity to make its context remarkable […] Amid such transformations of scale, the exaggeration of the miniature must continually assert a principle of balance and equivalence […] Scale is established by means of correspondences to the familiar. And time is managed by means of a miniaturisation of its significance; the miniature is the notation of the moment and the moment’s consequences.
Susan Stewart | 1993 |Â On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection | pp. 21-22













