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THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS portfolio by Grace Slick

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THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS

“For me, the White Rabbit represents our curiosity. If we have courage, we will follow him with all the impatience and unknown eventualities that heeding your dreams entails. Once we have slipped down the rabbit hole or through the looking glass – anything and everything is possible.”

Grace Slick

MAD TEA PARTY portfolio by Grace Slick

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MAD TEA PARTY

“In Wonderland, the cultural customs still exist – tea parties, friendships, wars, etc. But the book rips the pretension off the rulers and shows the futility of pride, pomp, and posing. This is Alice’s first inkling of the fallibility and stubborn arrogance in the chess board adult world. She is brave enough (as some of us are) to continue questioning and trying to reason with the characters of humanity. Baffled but curious she fields the maze and makes herself wiser by persisting through the inevitable dramas.”

Grace Slick

WHITE RABBITS TEA by Grace Slick

WHITE RABBIT’S TEA

“To be as crazy as they want, Alice and the White Rabbit do a formal picnic tea at exactly four o’ clock.”

Grace Slick

WOODSTOCK by Grace Slick

WOODSTOCK

“at the time (1969). A concert with 1/2 a million people was unheard of. To be honest we were blissfully unprepared and unmercifully hammered by the weather. As the painting shows. The audience had to slog around in the mud. Young people adapt to that kind of a mess better than old farts.

Saying goodbye on the last of three days. The clump of musicians on the stage is appreciating the audience and visaa versa. Everything except murder is happening in the crowd – as it would in any gathering of that size.

I have taken the liberty of inserting some individuals who could not have been there, but maybe there were in spirit – Abraham. Buddha. Mohamed. Jesus. Adam & Eve. Alice in Wonderland. The White Rabbit. My Daughter and Barack Obama.

For composition and space. I have simplified the stage gear and the sound towers. If it looks like a cartoon – it was.”

Grace Slick