Judith Serebrin Books & Prints ~ California

Alice on Her Way Down
Text by Lewis Carroll
Mixed-media scroll by Judith Serebrin
Additional illustration by John Tenniel
1998. Edition of 20.

This delightful scroll features a movable Alice and is "read" from top to bottom. The primary page, a black-on-white photocopy from an original ink drawing, depicts a series of burgeoning shelves replete with books, Dodo birds, framed paintings, crockery, and even a hooka! Treasures abound! Readers pull Alice down the rabbit hole from where this "dream-child moving through a land of Wonders" is suspended on an embroidered ribbon slipped through a slot at the top. A single, carved wood dowel provides support and is hand decorated to match the drawing. Color accents enliven drawing and dowel. Scroll is suspended from a red-and-white striped string for display. On the back, a brief quote from Carroll is penned in fanciful script with a rainbow of watercolor accents. Created in tribute to the author upon the 200th anniversary of his birth. Mohawk paper; beaded tie closure. Housed in a clear plastic box (1.5 x 1.5 x 3 inches). Recently featured at Books As Art: Art As Books, the Statewide Book Arts Competition and Exhibition at the Triton Museum of Art in Santa Clara, California. A delight!
$85