Alice (and Maria) Through the Looking Glass

In the March edition of Holography News®, I reported that Dr Ioana Pioaru had started work on holographic sculptures of my daughters, Alice and Maria. From the outset, I realised that the techniques that Ioana uses to create her art are different from other stereogram or light field approaches that I was more familiar with, but I have since learnt the extent of the innovation and collaboration that go into making her holograms.

Lewis Carroll’s book ‘Alice Through the Looking Glass’ – sequel to the novel ‘Alice in Wonderland’ – is perhaps as famous for the book’s illustrations (by John Tenniel) as it is for its prose. In the story, Alice is transported into the virtual world that exists on the other side of a mirror hanging in her house and sets out on a series of fantastic adventures where nothing turns out to be quite as it first appears.