Just Another Alice

For more than a year, the world was in the grip of a health crisis unlike any experienced in my lifetime. "Just another Alice" is a series of shadow boxes through which I explore the feeling of being trapped at home while struggling to find joy and hope. During the pandemic we have been locked down, our movement has been restricted, and travel has come to a standstill. For months I have barely left my home. I feel a little crazy at times and struggle to hold onto ways to find pleasure. I have built a small room to embody the space I have been confined to over this period of time. The image in each box shows that space, inhabited by a single empty chair and the traces of those activities to which I look for solace. Through the window of that room, I remember travels as a way of looking to the future. We all have our ways of coping. One way or another, we seek to bring light into the walls that confine us. With these images, I indulge in small pleasures, and look beyond the walls to memories of past trips and promises of new experiences. But more than that, they are a testament to the power of imagination, and the joy and strength we can gain through weaving stories.