There was an interesting article in the NY Times about the art of Walter Martin and Paloma Munoz.

known collaboratively as Martin & Muñoz, they sculpture and arrange miniature, three-dimensional scenes of alienation, dread and dark humor and set them inside snow globes.

also

next fall Aperture plans to publish a book on their work with text by the novelist Jonathan Lethem.

“I always gravitate to it,” Mr. Lethem said of their work in an interview. “It consistently combines reality and fantasy and puts an emphasis on storytelling as a universal form of human self-understanding.”