Essayist Roger Rosenblatt examines the work of artist Jane Freeman. This is the working thesis of Jane Freeman, an artist of small worlds, who for the past 13 years has been creating a way to understand one's place in one's life.
Freeman creates miniature rooms that contain everything but people.
Yet they are not dollhouses minus the dolls. Rather, they are undersized structures that demand oversize imaginations. We are the people inside them. And at the same time, we are outside, too. This paradox seems modernist, but it goes back and forward forever.