https://meanjin.com.au/essays/in-miniature/

( Content warning: discussions of chronic illness and weight loss. )

"The scale of the world, even the scale of a single human life, is terrifying. We can’t conceive or perceive the world, much less our place within it; we can’t contain its contradictions and variations, its overwhelming possibilities and changeability. But with a small world, after all, a doll’s house–sized world, a miniature world, all of this changes."

See also Susan Stewart, 'On Longing':

http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/auth/lib/aut/authorizeEBL.action?userid=9j05vzItv86bCywNY69Tkw%3d%3d&tstamp=1679532606&ut=715&hash=6C9F8D3528AE4D1D6DFA477D2E1B6AA36D7D117A&ebcid=9244648c9f7747f38ce167f3a9308ac1