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Charles Lutwidge Dodgson’s (Lewis Carroll) exploration of fantasy, role playing, gender, innocence and fugitive beauty is viewed through the controlled chaotic lense of resin. Dodgson’s Victorian theatricality is the starting point for these paintings which operate in a world where the real and unreal coexist as potential histories available to the viewer. Dodgson myths permeate and infuse the relationship between the photographs of the real Alice Liddell and her friends and the characters they influenced in Alice in Wonderland. These Victorian children, performing their roles in classical dramas, are suspended, frozen forever in polymerized resin, trapping their state of innocence.