Recently, I was lucky enough to view Sanda Lapage's art exhibit "Berenice’s Garden" at Gowanus Loft. It's both inspired by the beauty and grotesqueness of the natural world, while undercut by the strange sterility of the modern world. The outcome is bizarre--it feels at once familiar and alien all at the same time. I felt like I was Alice going between Wonderland and the real world, whatever real is.