Weems in Wonderland

Where to start?  With the formal composition of triangular elbows that complement the vertical line of faces within a circular frame?  With the tongue-in-cheek reference to Lewis Carroll and his [image error]close-ups of Victorian girls in their nighties?  With the pun on whiteness implied by the title "Mayflowers from Maydays Long Forgotten"?

This photograph by Carrie Mae Weems is beautifully composed, with the three gazes directed in three different directions.  Strikingly, the central girl looks directly a