This is the newest Linocut for my Exhibition Understanding Alice at the Firestation Print Studio in Melbourne opening on September 25th. The title is “An Ugly Baby Makes a Rather Handsome Pig”
Those who know the story know at one stage Alice is given a baby to hold and in her Arms it slowly morphs into a pig Alice remarks “If it had grown up it would have made a dreadfully ugly child: but it makes a rather handsome pig.” It all about context, what is deemed bad in one circumstance can seem good in another. I was struck by the contemporary nature of one thing morphing into another, you can now get an app to do what Carrol conceived in 1863. I love the irreverence of the humour. In my linocut the wallpaper is taken from a William Morris Design complete with rabbit.