“My work on these images began almost two years ago. The idea to take on this project of creating images of Alice and her friends was suggested by John Scanlan, of Verve Fine Arts in Santa Fe. Although quite a few people had mentioned to me over the past ten years that my digital images had a strange “Alice in Wonderland” quality to them, it never occurred to me to re-read the story or investigate further. Without John’s encouragement and enthusiasm for this project, these images would not exist. After months of reading and collecting everything from small plastic animals to nineteenth-century daguerreotypes and tintypes, I began to assemble the images.”

Almost Alice is made in Maggie Taylor’s signature style involving scans which she makes from pre-existing anonymous photographs. Although the people in Taylor’s images are primarily Americans, they are roughly from the same mid-1800’s era during which Lewis Carroll lived and worked. Her photographs are layered with imaginative detail that her work is known for. For example in the image, “It's always tea-time,” on the table is the Mad Hatter’s watch marked up to 31 for the days of the month rather than the “o’clock”. It is these little details that draw you into a Maggie Taylor photograph, and keep you there, swimming in her surrealism.