Megan Lowe Anderson
Chemistry
Knitted doll: "Send Woolen Manager," 2007

The Hunting of the Snark is considered the longest work of nonsense poetry in English. In it, an odd group of characters pursue the titular mythical creature. Unlike the Alice stories, this one ends on an ambiguous note—the baker disappears, the banker goes insane, and the Snark is neither seen nor caught. The perilous nature of a face-to-face encounter with the Snark is made concrete by the baker's caution that one must be careful in hunting it, for "if your Snark is a Boojum, then you will softly vanish away, and never be met with again." Due to the dark tone of the work, artists have tended to illustrate it with disturbing or mysterious drawings. Anderson's take on the poem is a faceless knitted doll she called Send Woolen Manager (a clever anagram of her name). In addition, the doll is stuffed with scraps of paper printed with lines from the Snark. Anderson's work pays tribute to Carroll's love of nonsense with her description of the doll's hands: "Four tentacles on each hand instead of fingers; the function is the same, but can I still call it a hand when it isn't?"