Being tiny comes with its own challenges and stigmas. Often associated with terms like submissiveness, weakness, and passivity, people often overlook the power and beauty in the small. Tiny Things features artwork that challenges our presumed negative connotation, and asks us to re-contextualize small-scale objects.

Scale plays an important role in how we relate to things as viewers. Whitson’s Appaloosa plays with our notion of what we consider “tiny”. In placing a horse figurine beside the foliage of the forest floor and photographing the landscape level to the horse, the scale and context of these objects drastically shift. The hazy glow of the piece, in combination with the horse figurine’s tensed pose, evokes a sense of uncertainty and discomfort. It’s as if the horse is overwhelmed by its environment, limited by its size in relation to its surroundings…