Using cardboard, foam, wood, paint, glue and model railroad miniatures, Amy Bennett constructs various fictional scale models. Recent models have included an entire neighbourhood, a lake, theatre, doctor's office, church, and numerous domestic interiors. The models become a stage on which she develops narratives. They offer complete control over lighting, composition and vantage point to achieve a certain dramatic effect. Working with tiny pieces is a reminder of the delicacy and vulnerability of the world she creates; the clumsy inadequacies of miniatures helping to convey a sense of artifice and distance. Amy Bennett paints the scenes in a way that feels like a believable?but ultimately an alternate, and fabricated?world. The paintings that result are glimpses of a scene or fragments of a narrative. Similar to a memory, they are fictional constructions of significant moments meant to elicit specific feelings and to provoke the viewer to consider the moment before or after the one presented in the painting. 82 colour illustrations
