Go Ask Alice © David MacDowell (2007)

Best Interpretation: “When I first saw this piece I wasn’t really sure what to think but as I looked at it closer I think it is an interpretation of the American culture. We are all distracted by doing ‘stuff’ going places. Playing with the Alice in Wonderland theme of Alice falling into the bunny hole…maybe that is what America has done. We have all fallen into a bunny hole that has distracted us from Jesus and his blood sacrifice. We have become so distracted by our lives and our desires that we forgot about God’s love. We are all sleeping, consuming coffee to stay up and always searching for something to calm the storm…” -Tabatha

The Artist’s Secrets: “An intimate view of a child’s dream. I wanted to express the nervousness and anxiety of adolescence. Kids get so worked up over their recitals and schoolwork, inevitably they end up swirling in oceans of tea with bloody Jesus.” -David MacDowell

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Rolla © H. Gervex (1878) , Musee des B.-Arts de Bordeau

Best Interpretation: “He dressed, as he usually did after their messy love-making. This time, however, he did not leave immediately as was the norm. This time, he stayed maybe a minute longer than he should have. He studied her face, the contour of her body, the stickiness of the sheets, which clung to her thighs in sweaty embrace. She lay sleepy with post-passion exuberance. This time, she did not bade him to take leave as she had done many days before. It seemed as if they both wanted to get caught–as if their most inner desires were speaking out loud.

Then, they heard foot steps echoing from the landing outside. She closed her eyes in awkward prayer. He left his shirt as it was–unbuttoned–and did nothing to remedy it from haphazardly escaping his unbound trousers. ” […Read all] -Brian Jaime

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