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Lisa Swerling’s Glass Cathedrals www.glasscathedrals.com are a series of artboxes containing tiny worlds, each making their own small statement on our complicated lives.

Another day in the office. Decor includes cut out paper pigeon heads and african hoopoes, glitter letters I picked up in...
03/22/2026

Another day in the office. Decor includes cut out paper pigeon heads and african hoopoes, glitter letters I picked up in Theater of Dreams in Port Costa ages ago by , art by .lazar paper whale by Tasks include having coffee in a bookshop cafe and making the grim reaper.

Just another day in the office ✨
03/22/2026

Just another day in the office ✨

Can’t take full credit but congrats to Jessie Buckley for her win. 🐞⚡️🐞When I started making a Glass Cathedral of HAMNET...
03/16/2026

Can’t take full credit but congrats to Jessie Buckley for her win. 🐞⚡️🐞

When I started making a Glass Cathedral of HAMNET for my Cinerama film collection, I wondered how best to recreate the forest world of Agnes, in her element.

The movie scene already held all the essential elements of a Glass Cathedral - to be tiny in the immensity of things, and also to be the hero of your own story. But how to get the miniature recreation to really come alive? I remembered I had some dry pieces of lichen-covered bark that I’d picked up on Hampstead Heath in the autumn. Of course, in a Glass Cathedral, a small piece of bark transforms into a mighty tree trunk! And that is how I built up this world for tiny Agnes.

It also feels quite apt to be heading in a bold new direction inspired by Hamnet, given the almost unbelievable story of how Chloé Zhao came up with the final scene of the movie. It was 4 days before the end of filming and Zhao had not decided how to end the film. Jessie Buckley sent her a piece of music, and as Zhao was driving along listening to it, she stretched her hand out of the window to catch the rain.The ending came to her. SO BRAVE.

02/12/2026

I have made several hundred LOVE Glass Cathedrals over the last 22 years. Here are 12! Any speak to you?

1. Evergreen
2. To the Moon and Back
3.Happy Days
4. I do!
5. Where we are
6. All the Days
7. Some People Belong Together
8. the English Patient
9. Me Without You is like Sky Without Blue
10. Hygge
11. The Wish
12. Paradise Found.

In CINERAMA - my collection of film-themed artboxes - I try capture something special about a cinematic experience, dist...
02/06/2026

In CINERAMA - my collection of film-themed artboxes - I try capture something special about a cinematic experience, distilled in one of my tiny worlds.

Jessie Buckley in her element in the forest in HAMNET already held all the essential elements of a Glass Cathedral. To be tiny in the immensity of things, but also to be the hero of your own story.

Thank you and Jessie Buckley and the bold creative process you undertook to make this film.

“The Beauty of the World” is my homage to the world that the you all created.

Jimmy Kimmel and Guillermo | Business as UsualEven in a time of non-stop heart-stopping headlines, Jimmy Kimmel’s “indef...
02/01/2026

Jimmy Kimmel and Guillermo | Business as Usual

Even in a time of non-stop heart-stopping headlines, Jimmy Kimmel’s “indefinite” suspension by Disney felt like the final flatline. So we waited with bated breath as Jimmy and Guillermo returned to host the reinstated show. How would they possibly meet the momentous moment?

And then, to turn that moment into a Glass Cathedral - to be gifted to Jimmy himself - pure light in heavy times. Thank you .jammy for believing in my art from the beginning.

I was commissioned to make quite a few somewhat challenging but always delightful Glass Cathedral portraits last year. N...
01/29/2026

I was commissioned to make quite a few somewhat challenging but always delightful Glass Cathedral portraits last year.

Number 1 is a portrait of David in his best ’70’s suit (and hairstyle) - commissioned by his kids for his 80th birthday. David founded a string of successful squash clubs in the 70s/80s and so there he is, standing as the king of his domain.


Well it's been more than a year since I shared on Facebook but could not resist as I just made a diorama of my cousins t...
03/11/2021

Well it's been more than a year since I shared on Facebook but could not resist as I just made a diorama of my cousins the Jacobsons and I KNOW they are cruising FB, along with other cuzzies who'd love to see this!!

This is the J's at their “Happy Place” Glen Beach in Camps Bay, Cape Town South Africa. Thanks for the photo to use as the backdrop Harry! I am so excited at how it all came out especially how the closeness and love of your family is expressed in the miniature figures, and your love of South Africa.

Alan Jacobson Bev Jacobson Dani Jacobson Harry Jacobson And Gemma and Tali I think you are way too cool to be on Facebook :)

12/03/2020

Who needs a fancy filter when have glitter?

A reimagining of “The Nightjob”, one of the first glass cathedrals I ever designed. It has always represented the indomitability of the human spirit to me, and our drive to create meaning (and beauty in whatever form - aesthetic, spiritual, familial) in our everyday lives.

Customised diorama of “We’re all going on a bear hunt” the MUCH loved children’s book by Michael Rosen.When my kids were...
11/29/2020

Customised diorama of “We’re all going on a bear hunt” the MUCH loved children’s book by Michael Rosen.

When my kids were small we’d recite the whole book when walking on Hampstead Heath, and so I was thrilled to make this little family on the same mission, on the Heath.

I met Michael Rosen once, because he and his wife bought a Glass Cathedral and they came to pick it up.
Now it’s a long story, but basically I had been looking for Michael Rosen for some months to try invite him to my daughter’s class to talk, and he had been difficult to track down. So when he arrived on my doorstep, I acted more weirdly than normal (I always act weirdly with famous people) and greeted him with a mixture of annoyance and familiarity “Ah, THERE you are!” and “Where have you BEEN!?”
Luckily I didn’t totally scare him away as he ended up having a cup of tea and meeting my daughter’s favorite toy, Fluffy, who I think he felt more comfortable with than me. I have a photo! I’ll post it next!

A snowy love diorama that you can enjoy in all it’s sparkly loveliness at MiXX in Telluride, that has just reopened for ...
11/28/2020

A snowy love diorama that you can enjoy in all it’s sparkly loveliness at MiXX in Telluride, that has just reopened for the winter season.




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