Issue link: http://digital.copcomm.com/i/686925
When I was a little girl, my mother not only read books to me, she told me stories from her imagination. She might ask, "Which friend would you like to take to the fair?" I would name the friend and she would proceed to make up a story to entertain me. We shared this love of storytelling and imagination throughout our lives. To the outside world, these eccentricities might be considered a bit mad, but between us, we could share a world of stuffed talking pandas and alley cat adventures with abandon. This way of thinking is at the very heart of Lewis Carroll's Alice Through the Looking Glass—making new friends, bizarre situations, chance meetings, feeling fearless in a world of uncertainty. My work on this project is dedicated to my mother, V. Joreen TenEyck, who passed away on April 4, 2016. When working on a film, people are always part of a team, but they are also individuals—individuals who have come from different backgrounds, have traveled to different countries, had different experiences and have different points of view. Bringing these individual perspectives to a project, even when they are filtered through the lens of the Production Designer, keeps things fresh, keeps the work from becoming commonplace. And, chances are, these quirky ideas resonate with other people too.