{"id":5955,"date":"2013-06-13T01:00:36","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T05:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=5955"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:22:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:22:02","slug":"alice-wells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/13\/alice-wells\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographer: Alice Wells"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Take Me<\/em> was the graduating piece by Alice Wells<\/a>, where she invited guests to stoop over a long white bench and sift through a pile of little plastic pieces. Each piece ranged in size and captured Alice in various garments and poses. As a part of the piece, guests were asked to pluck as many Alices from the pile as desired. I grabbed two myself and turned them into a pair of earrings.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Take Me was the graduating piece by Alice Wells, where she invited guests to stoop over a long white bench and sift through a pile of little plastic pieces. Each piece ranged in size and captured Alice in various garments and poses. As a part of the piece, guests were asked to pluck as many […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16,199],"tags":[1061,37,125,1876,1062],"class_list":["post-5955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist","category-photography","tag-alice-wells","tag-art","tag-artist-2","tag-photography","tag-take-me"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Btis-1y3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8663,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/01\/november-bookbinder-of-the-month-sol-rebora\/","url_meta":{"origin":5955,"position":0},"title":"November \/\/ Bookbinder of the Month: Sol R\u00e9bora","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"November 1, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Sol R\u00e9bora has bound two copies of Alice in Wonderland.\u00a0Both designs are stark opposites, one bound in full black goatskin and one bound in full white goatskin. 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