Carroll's text through a new artist's eye
Maggie Taylor pairs Lewis Carroll's classic with her own dreamlike digital images. The book is a visual reinterpretation, letting a contemporary artist re-author a canonical tale.
Through the Looking-Glass
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Digital photomontage as illustration
Taylor composites scanned objects and vintage photographs into surreal scenes on the computer. Her method shows illustration migrating from drawing to layered digital collage.
Surreal image matched to nonsense text
Carroll's logical nonsense finds a visual counterpart in Taylor's uncanny, floating imagery. The pairing argues that dream-logic writing calls for dream-logic pictures.
Illustration as independent artwork
The images stand as fine art rather than subordinate captions to the story. Taylor asserts the illustrator as co-creator with a distinct vision.