Alice and the Tea Party
During my thirty-year career as an artist, I have translated ideas into a variety of media-photography, printmaking, installation and recently, found object sculpture. Creating a three-dimensional object has always been a curiousity to me, and it was exactly this sense of curiosity that led me to create my own Wonderland. Constructed from discarded scraps, found objects, and ephemera, the figures of Alice, the Mad Hatter, the Rabbit and the Red Queen took on a new persona, one that was quirky, humorous, dark, and compelling.
The story of "Alice and Wonderland" evokes childhood memories and nostalgia. The underlying theme of a young girl maturing in a world ruled by chaos and nonsense is not so unsimilar to the confusing and complex world in which we live today. The Mad Tea Party is a symbol for our times. The issues identified in "Alice in Wonderland, that of time, identity, curiosity, and chaos, seem astonishing in its modernity and ripe for a new interpretation.
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