Little wonders: Dream No Small Dreams – in pictures

Under the dome … sculptor Thomas Doyle "mines the debris of memory" with his glassed-in installations. The London exhibit was curated by Bartholomew F Bland, of the Hudson River Museum. Photograph: Thomas Doyle/Ronchini Gallery/Palazzo Strozzi

People who live in glasses houses … Doyle created numerous miniature houses, such as this piece that offers a dystopian view of the American Dream.
Photograph: Torsten Roman/Palazzo Strozzi

Doyle's Proxy series, such as the 2011 piece 1340 Chippewa Drive (shown), quite literally suspends reality. Photograph: Thomas Doyle/Ronchini Gallery

View from the top … Doyle has said his tiny works, trapped in cloches, "distort reality through a warped and dreamlike lens". Shown here is the mixed-media work Coming From Where We're Going. Photograph: Thomas Doyle/Ronchini Gallery

Doyle's sculpture Armitice measures a mere 25 inches long and 21 inches wide. Photograph: Thomas Doyle/Ronchini Gallery

Artist Patrick Jacobs sees life through a looking glass, as with this 2012 diorama, Dandelion Cluster #7. Jacobs places his tiny scenes behind portholes to create "little technicolour landscapes". Photograph: Patrick Jacobs/Ronchini Gallery

Going back to nature … Thomas Doyle's "optical delusions" include the new sculpture Beset. Photograph: Thomas Doyle/Ronchini Gallery

Underground art … self-taught Brooklyn-based photographer Adrien Broom has tunnel vision with her digital photograph Direction. Photograph: Adrien Broom/Ronchini Gallery

Doyle's sculpture Mire freezes time before disaster strikes. Doyle and fellow artists Adrien Broom and Patrick Jacobs frequently depict artifical landscapes and a distorted view of nature. Photograph: Thomas Doyle/Ronchini Gallery