microcosmic

Millet’s definition of the end of the world is expansive: Sometimes, the world is microcosmic and social.

The rooms of the downtown gallery will be darkened, and Hooper Schneider’s “disorienting vistas,” microcosmic scenarios that allude to macrocosmic phenomena of ecological, biological, anthropological and sociological distress, will be illuminated dramatically within.

That those things have eroded into a microcosmic world fraught with addiction, violence and overt racism don’t seem to bother Mary Pat.

Begun during the isolation of the pandemic shutdown, the pictures are appropriately interior and microcosmic.

With its portrait of the kind of middle-class, multigenerational abode that’s increasingly rare in growing cities like Mumbai, “About Love” feels like a microcosmic epic, an entire world captured in a grain of sand.