Crystal Ives
Medicine
Artwork: “Gryphon,” 2008

The Alice stories contain numerous characters that make short yet memorable appearances. The Gryphon and the Mock Turtle appear in chapter nine of the first book, where they engage in a bizarre comparison of their respective educations then teach Alice to dance the Lobster Quadrille. Ives’s enthusiasm for the Gryphon is evident in this work’s effort to show how words can operate on multiple dimensions to bring vivid characters and images to life. The result is a literary artwork that mirrors the delightful interplay of metaphor, wordplay, mathematics, and worlds of meaning evident in the original two novels.