Alice Hatch visits Alice in Wonderland

"Kalamazoo artist Mary Hatch, who has seen Carroll’s Alice pop up in her work a number of times over the arc of her career. Mary Hatch“Alice’s world in a way is very beautiful and interesting, but also the poor girl is stuck with a lot of problems,” Hatch said recently. “There is an uneasiness about that story."

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Hatch was first exposed to Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” when her mother read her the book as a child, and to this day she owns a couple of books that contain the original illustrations. “It has that kind of resonance,” Hatch said of the tale. “Like it’s always been living inside of me.”