Sara Hegarty
Cinematic Arts (Production)
Art installation: “An Imagining of the Desk of Lewis Carroll,” 2008

A fourth place award went to a work that offers a fanciful reconstruction of Lewis Carroll’s desk, where he composed his renowned children’s literature, wrote in his journal, and formulated his logic puzzles. Hegarty asks us to ponder whether, as he was furiously dashing off one of the 100,000 personal letters he sent to friends and acquaintances over the course of his life, he looked up from his desk, cluttered with games, word puzzles, and photographs, and saw himself in a mirror—and whether this mirror could have inspired the sequel, Through the Looking-Glass.