Emily Tetri
Cinematic Arts (Animation and Digital Arts)
Artwork, 2005

Tetri’s homage to Lewis Carroll’s masterwork depicts a slightly older Alice advancing through a Gothic archway into Wonderland. Though the artist’s motivation for using this architectural style to frame a moment in Alice’s adventures is unstated, the attention given to certain details reveals a strong familiarity both with the source material and with the visual arts themselves. Alice determinedly steps from the domain of the viewer into this landscape, where, in the distance, playing cards can be seen painting rosebushes. Looming hauntingly overhead from the spandrels are the Cheshire Cat and the White Rabbit, two key interlocutors in Alice’s journey.