In a sign of hope for normalcy, the first Local/Focus installation in the Tremont Street window since the South End library closed in March is now on view. It features the magical interiors of three dollhouses, or ‘miniatures,’ as their creator, Floy Miller, likes to describe them, including a replica of a lighthouse. Miller has built some two dozen of them and, her partner Charlotte Cole, fears they may have to build an extra wing at their house on Martha’s Vineyard to accommodate them all. Miller would like to know how they can be used in the future: In schools, to help children create stories around them? Or simply as backgrounds in our rooms to allow our imagination to take us away, to a lighthouse, to a house in the suburbs, to a home as it was lived in a century ago…? Your suggestions are welcome.

The exhibit will be up till the end of September. The poster was created by FOSEL advisor, Reinhold Mahler.