Sizing Down: Complex Geometries and Nanoendocrinology in the Tiniest of Bend Spaces

She kneels, a sinister grin spreading across her face. A man’s tiny body lay before her, no larger than a pebble. Her fingers delicately pick it up, placing the shrunken creature in the palm of her hand. She admires the molecular miniature man as he quivers in fear, his eyes darting around frantically. She leans in close, inhaling his scent, and whispers softly. You are so small and insignificant. And yet, you still exist. How beautiful that is. The shrunken man trembles in her grasp, his body a mere fraction of what it once was. She presses him between her thumb and forefinger, winding him up tightly before releasing him to sail through the air and land in a crease on the sole of her foot. She laughs heartily, satisfied with his diminutive size. She turns to face the camera, her eyes locked onto the lens. Welcome to my most secret fantasy, to shrink a man so molecular small he can live in the creases of my sol. As the camera pans out, the diminutive man crawls out of her foot, his journey into the unknown and mysterious world within the limits of her shoe.