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@helena.helenbar has just released a new video that brings together two of her great passions: her meticulous interest in technical processes and the history of printing, and her long-standing relationship with Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
A design professor and scholar of printing processes, Helenbar delves into the material world of the early editions of Alice, exploring how the images in Lewis Carroll’s books were produced and printed. At the same time, she revisits her own Alice illustrations, created in Photoshop more than twenty years ago, and now uses artificial intelligence to bring them to life, including her unforgettable Caterpillar.
Her story with Alice, however, began much earlier. Her first drawings appeared in 1992. In 2003, after sewing a blue dress for a party, Helenbar began photographing herself as Alice and constructing, image by image, her own Wonderland. Each composition emerged from dozens of photographs, objects, drawings, and references, through a meticulous process of photomontage in Photoshop.
These digital Alices received considerable attention in the Brazilian and international press and were also featured in Knight Letter, the publication of the Lewis Carroll Society of North America.
There is something particularly fascinating, then, about this new video. Helenbar brings different moments in the history of image-making into dialogue: the graphic processes that gave form to the earliest printed Alices, the Photoshop techniques with which she created her own Alices in the early 2000s, and now artificial intelligence, which allows them to move.
In an interview I conducted with her in 2009, Helenbar described her digital process as a “constant embroidering and un-embroidering.” More than twenty years later, she continues to embroider and un-embroider Alice through the technologies of her time.
Helenbar’s latest journey into Wonderland is truly worth discovering.
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