ALICE COLLECTORS: Nurdamla

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 Based in Türkiye, Nurdamla is a medical doctor who began her Alice journey in 2016. Since then, she has built a lively digital presence on Instagram, where she shares her growing collection with nearly three thousand followers. Her posts reveal both a sense of aesthetic care and a personal connection to Wonderland, turning books and objects into moments of storytelling. Her collection gathers modern and artistic editions, international translations, illustrated works, and decorative memorabilia. 

She is especially drawn to the diversity of illustration styles, from Tenniel’s Victorian imagery to surrealist, gothic, and kawaii visions, showing her openness to both historical continuity and imaginative reinvention. Among her most cherished treasures is Robert Sabuda’s intricate pop-up edition, while her dream remains to find rare Russian or Chinese adaptations. For Nurdamla, Alice has always been meaningful because she is a girl on an adventure without a prince, a heroine who embodies independence and imagination. 

Now, her collection also carries an intergenerational value: she hopes her daughter will one day inherit not only the books but also the love for the story itself. In this way, her shelves are more than objects of admiration; they are a legacy of wonder and adventure shared across generations. In the typology of collectors, Nurdamla can be seen more as an Affective Collector, someone guided not only by rarity or historical prestige but by the emotional resonance of each item, weaving Alice into the fabric of memory, family, and community. Yet her practice is not limited to this category; it also reflects an eye for artistic experimentation and alicedelic curiosity, qualities that keep her collection in constant metamorphosis.

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AI animation inspired by Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: A Pop-up Adaptation (Hardcover, Little Simon, 2003), written by Lewis Carroll and illustrated by Robert Sabuda. All rights remain with the original author and illustrator. This video is a non-profit homage.