His drawings of both Alice books remain what I think are the best visual translations of what Carroll described in words.įor many images, I’ve created wallpaper, taking liberties and using parts of Tenniel’s drawings to piece together my own designs that I used as backgrounds in sets for my pictures.Īfter finishing illustrating Through the Looking Glass, I reviewed my 1998 pictures of Alice in Wonderland and it struck me that some of them did not pass the test of time.so I made a few new versions. To make my pictures, I have depended on and quoted from Sir John Tenniel’s original illustrations generously. Brave Alice learns to deal with the irrational without ignoring it. Alice’s rolling with the punches supplied me with an instructive guide to living in turbulent times.
She confronts the many disturbing things she encounters with determination and, in the end, she manages to adapt to her new situation. Notably, however, in both her trips to Wonderland, Alice is resilient. What she encounters there seemed to me to have parallels to new realities in our present moment.
Through the Looking Glass revolves around Alice stepping into a mirror, on the other side of which there is a topsy-turvy, unfamiliar and illogical world. Suddenly, Alice’s adventures seemed to have a lot in common with what was going on in the world – and within me. My experiences of getting sick with the COVID virus early on, and then sheltering in place thereafter sent me down another, different sort of rabbit hole. But other projects distracted, took precedence. I designed my images to be situated within a landscape made of books because it struck me that Carroll had linked Wonderland to the idea of discovering imagination by digging deep into the pages of a book.Īfter completing this project, I always thought I would re-visit Wonderland again and explore Carroll’s second “Alice” book, Through the Looking Glass. In 1998, I made a series of photographs illustrating Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland.
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