"As a child I spent countless hours dedicated to my dolls houses, re-enacting my daily occurrences, manipulating the scenes to mimic life. My work is a doorway to my past, a place where I can control the domestic once again. Thematically the ‘garden’, as an extension to the home, features prominent but I am increasingly migrating towards larger more complete worlds in miniature, loaded with sentiment.

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As we grow, instead of creatively tackling the unknown, we draw on what experience has taught. Through sculpting everyday objects in miniature I represent something usual, but due to the scale a gap is formed between the encounter and predetermined expectation, which knowledge and experience has instilled. A moment of creative space opens where imagination and memory work together, rather than at odds. The viewer is encouraged to not only imagine but to reminisce evoking a safe and comforting sense of nostalgia.

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Balsa wood is an integral structural element, as it allows me to create representational sculptures without planning. Instead, I use memories of items, creating the miniature organically. The pieces then have a remembered quality, exaggerated in places, resulting in imperfections. These imperfections in turn trigger the gaps, the moments where imagination is sparked and memory can reside."

- Dominique, On her Artwork.