“to make others believe, we must believe ourselves.”

“…a coach the size of a bean.”

“…from the interior he discovers interior beauty.”

“…an inversion of perspective, which is either fleeting or captivating, according to the talent of the narrator, or the reader’s capacity for dream.”

“representation is dominated by imagination. representation becomes nothing but a body of expressions with which to communicate our own images to others.”

“‘the world is my imagination.’ the cleverer i am at miniaturizing the world, the better i possess it.”

“one must go beyond logic in order to experience what is large in what is small.”

all of this has also made me think again of my buddy abelardo morell. his work is brimming with the idea of an “inversion of perspective”.

 i think i’m going to go & bug him for an interview now & hope he is not too busy to chat….

“Inhabiting the margins between dream and reality, these figures of impossible dimensions appear at once banal and elusive, meticulously crafted and dreamily insubstantial. Each nearly weightless sculpture seems to hover between its slim hold on the material plane and the lucid and immeasurable reality of a mental image. Straddling the line between science, craft, art, and novelty, Sandaldjian’s work befuddles our ability to make such distinctions, and in so doing, opens a space for wonder.”      

(above, wild animals  ”on a strand of hair, twelve wild animals are seen in the presence of a crowd. the strand of hair is coverd with glue.”)

pretty good, yes?

i highly recommend you look at the rest of the microminiatures of hagop sandaldjian.