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Essay

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Tending Alice's Garden, mixed media, inkjet on rag paper,
18" x 24" (image 10" x 16.5"), Edition 50

 
 
   

Alice stubbornly refuses to leave me in peace, so what can I do? I make Alice pictures. "Alice's Adventures under Ground", was written by Lewis Carroll (Reverand Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) for 10 year old Alice Liddel in 1862. It was later expanded and published as "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass" and is remarkably relevant today.

Quote Alice to the Red Queen:

"Well in our country, "said Alice, still panting a little, "You'd generally get somewhere else - if you ran very fast for a long time, as we've been doing." "A slow sort of country!" said the Queen. "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do to stay in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run twice as fast as that"