Myra Yepez
Fine Arts (Studio Arts)
Painting: “Through the Other Looking Glass,” 2008

A renowned portraitist, Lewis Carroll took numerous photographs of Alice Liddell—the young girl who inspired him to write the Wonderland stories. Here, Yepez paints an image of a fictional photographic session between the two. Inscribed around the edge of the picture are Alice’s ruminations as Carroll arranges the camera: “… thus he perched upon a tripod, crouched beneath its dusty cover, stretched his hand, enforcing silence—Said, ‘Be motionless, I beg you!’ Mystic, awful was the process.” Though the exact nature of their relationship has been the source of controversy, scholarly consensus is that there was nothing more than a platonic fondness between them.