Patrick Shin
Pharmacy
Artwork, 2005

A mathematics professor at Oxford for many decades, Lewis Carroll delighted in all manner of games (he planned the sequel to his first hugely successful Alice book as an extended metaphor for a game of chess). Shin’s work presents some of the memorable characters from the Alice books against a checkerboard background. These characters offer clues to a complicated series of riddles, similar to those Carroll composed on the large circular kiosks nearby.