He opted against miniature scale models and computer-generated imagery (CGI) because he wanted the scene to be real for both the actors and the audience viewing the film.
It could be a metaphor for all our lives, and you can certainly apply it to this show where, for over two hours, Lepage wanders the stage searching for something lost and just out of reach, using film, projection and miniature scale models to try and conjure the past, while he attempts and fails to memorise Michèle Lalonde's Speak White, a poem that rails at linguistic oppression.
Throughout, miniature scale signals childhood memories, and architectural details are sampled as dream stage-sets.
The paintings of DITI ALMOG, a young Israeli artist now living in New York, on view at Boesky & Callery, veer between real and miniature scale.
The simplified form and miniature scale perfectly match the humble subject matter, so altering the size or definition of the imagery is probably not an option.
The miniature scale (approximately one inch square) and uneven photography means we will have to digitize each image individually, rather than in groups.
In general, the pieces that stand out are those that operate most logically and cogently on a miniature scale.
These people are fascists in miniature, scale them up to an oversized importance and you get Sebastian Gorka.
In the detail to the left (The Strong Family by Charles Philips, 1732), there is little difference in the appearances of the adults and children, save the miniature scale (it even took me a second look to notice the young man).
You can learn about tailoring and sewing on a miniature scale.
