Richard Bratby

Model villages aren’t just for kids

Places like Bekonscot are a form of outsider art and deliver a cheerful jolt to unexamined notions about our own place – and size – in the world

Village people: horrors occur daily along Bekonscot’s waterways, as huge koi carp lunge at model beachgoers like something out of H.P. Lovecraft. Credit: Tim Dunn/Rex Shutterstock

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