Through compression and distillation, something that is physically smaller becomes more powerful than what is larger. The small stimulates very big thoughts about larger worlds.
Douglass W. Bailey, (2005). Prehistoric Figurines, Routledge
Far from being an accidental quality of miniature gardens – a makeshift resulting from lack of space – smallness gives greater value to the object. In fact, the more altered in size the representation is from the natural object, the more it takes on a magical or mythic quality.
Rolf A. Stein, (1987). The World in Miniature. Container Gardens and Dwellings in Far Eastern Religious Thought, Stanford.
