Snail World: Life in the Slimelight

snails are the A list stars in miniature set designer aleia murawski's slime world. potentially your best conversation-starter of a coffee table book. susan stewart's on longing posits that this reduced scale flips the power dynamic between people and space on its head. by surrendering your ability to inhabit a space in favor of seeing another in its totality, the miniature space-maker assumes a sort of god-like stance. egyptians are credited with crafting the first miniatures — bakeries, boa...