What happens when a quiet kid who loved tiny cake decorations grows up to paint miniatures, build box dioramas, and think seriously about small worlds?

This first episode of Her Shrink Ray Eye is part origin story, part mission statement. I’m Joan Biediger, a painter, builder, and longtime observer of small things. This is where I begin to shift the lens: not only toward what miniatures are, but how they are experienced.

I talk about memory, miniature art, figure painting, scale modeling, outsider perspective, and the quiet power of seeing things differently. This episode sets the foundation for a podcast that looks at miniature work from the inside out, through perception, creativity, psychology, artistic process, and what happens at the bench.

If you paint, build, collect, or simply find yourself drawn to small worlds, you may feel at home here.

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