Instead of finding your audience, why not just make them? Make ‘em look.
The dollhouse has two dominant motifs: wealth and nostalgia. It presents a myriad of perfect objects that are, as signifiers, often affordable, whereas the signified is not. Consider the miniature Orkney Island chairs that can be found in the china cupboards of many Island homes. The full-size chairs, handmade of local straw, were once a major furnishing of the peasant house, but because their manufacture is so labour-intensive and because their mode of production has become so esoteric, only the very wealthy can now afford them. Hence the descendants of the peasants who once owned such pieces can afford only the miniature, or "toy," version. Use value is transformed into display value here. Even the most basic use of the toy object-to be "played with" is not often found in the world of the dollhouse. The dollhouse is consumed by the eye. On Longing - Susan Stewart
https://teach.alimomeni.net/2012spring2/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/On-longing-Stewart-1984.pdf
But what are they looking at?
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1316194/place-village-installation-rachel-whiteread/
https://www.editions-memo.fr/livre/le-coeur-de-pic/
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/mini-gallery-show-1955434
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