Holey (il)logic! Andrea Gardner’s nonsensical sense.

Abstract

This essay braids together two threads: playful ekphrastic descriptions of the colour photographic works of Andrea Gardner, and passages which respond to the works in terms of their context, whether that be biographical or theoretical. In responding to the various touchpoints of Gardner’s highly coloured, surreal photographic works, I discuss everything from Alice in Wonderland, to Van Gogh, to James Joyce, to Gilles Deleuze. Like the works themselves, the text reflects a “fall” into a kind of Wonderland of associations.