Scenes From the Tiny Stage - The Art Capades of Amanda Linn

Sometime in early 2005, I felt motivated to build something. I ended up at my local big box home improvement store purchasing materials to make a tiny stage on wheels. I wasn't really sure why I was building a tiny stage on wheels, but it seemed like an okay idea at the time. I took a lot of grief from my friends about the tiny stage. There were many tiny stage jokes made at my expense. After I saw the first photos taken using the tiny stage, I recognized them as tributes to my childhood affection for my Viewmaster- I'm talking late 60's- 70's Viewmaster. Later I made a connection with my love of Richard Scary illustrations. Who doesn't love pictures where rabbits wear clothes, cats drive cars and a worm wears a hat. In 2006 I introduced vintage tin dollhouses to the world of the tiny stage. I suspect my father was grooming me to be an architect as a child (what else explains a T-square, drafting triangles and a german compass set for your 13th birthday) however, my inability to grasp advanced mathematical concepts squashed his dream- most people want their buildings to look good AND stand up. I didn't make it to architecture, but I do have a love for cut-away interiors and beautifully contrived facades.