ALICEDELIC BOSCH Receives Official Selection at the AI Master Award (AIMA)

 

I'm happy to share that ALICEDELIC BOSCH has been selected as an Official Selection of the AI Master Award (AIMA).

After Garden of Alicinations received recognition in its film version, it is especially rewarding to see this image recognized as an independent work.

ALICEDELIC BOSCH brings together the classic Alices illustrated by John Tenniel and Gertrude Thomson with the extraordinary world of Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights. Created with artificial intelligence as part of my ongoing artistic research, the work explores the intersection of literature, art history, symbolism, and contemporary image-making.

It is very meaningful to see this research acknowledged across different artistic languages: first as a film, and now as a single image.

My thanks to the AIMA jury for this selection and to everyone who continues to follow and support my work. I look forward to sharing the next projects soon.

 

 

Garden of Alicinations wins a thimble!

 

I am delighted to share that Garden of Alicinations has received the Best Micro-Short Film award at the Action/Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Thriller Festival in Los Angeles.

Although the film is just over a minute long, it grew out of a research journey that has accompanied me for many years. Long before working with artificial intelligence, Alice had already become a central figure in my artistic practice, appearing in books, illustrations, objects, and visual experiments.

When I began making films with AI, I realized I could finally bring into motion worlds that had previously existed only as still images. Garden of Alicinations emerged from the meeting of two lifelong passions: Alice, as imagined by John Tenniel and Gertrude Thomson, and Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights.

Rather than adapting Lewis Carroll's story, I imagined Bosch's garden as Alice's unconscious, a place where dreams and metamorphoses unfold according to their own logic.

Ironically, the greatest challenge was not creating images, but removing them. Using Photoshop and AI, I spent days digitally emptying Bosch's painting, removing hundreds of figures to make room for Alice to experience her own journey through that extraordinary landscape.

 

The film features an original soundtrack by Paulo Beto, whose music brings rhythm, atmosphere, and depth to this dreamlike world.

Watching the audience respond with so many different interpretations was one of the most rewarding parts of the experience. I have always hoped to create works that remain open to the viewer's imagination.

I am deeply grateful to the festival for this award, to everyone who watched the film, and to all those who continue to follow my work. And perhaps the greatest discovery this film gave me was realizing that Alice's garden has also been quietly blooming within us.

 

 

  

Alice and the Seven Keys 

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In my collage book Alice and the Seven Keys (A Mascote, 2022), I reimagine Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights as a landscape where Alice could naturally wander. Rather than focusing on the painting's moral or religious interpretations, I explore its dreamlike logic, hybrid creatures, impossible transformations, and playful absurdity, drawing parallels with Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Through collage, Bosch's garden becomes an extension of Alice's imaginative world, suggesting that both Bosch and Lewis Carroll created autonomous universes shaped by curiosity, metamorphosis, and oneiric imagination. 

 

Read about this book according to Semperlux here. 

 

 

Alice: 150th Anniversary Edition 

 

 

Bosch also appears in Alice: 150th Anniversary Edition (Lewis Carroll. Translated by Maria Luiza X. de A. Borges. Collages by Adriana Peliano based on John Tenniel's original illustrations. Rio de Janeiro: Zahar, 2015). In this edition, Tenniel's Victorian illustrations are reimagined through collages that incorporate references to the history of art, including Hieronymus Bosch.

In the image titled Alice Puzzle, Alice's body no longer obeys conventional anatomy, transforming into a composition of paradoxes. Multiple heads, extra arms, impossible objects, dice, chess pieces, and Penrose triangles coexist within a single figure, as though Alice's identity were constantly being reconstructed. The collage brings Carroll's nonsense into conversation with Bosch's world of hybrid bodies and improbable combinations.

Bosch also reappears in the Caterpillar scene. Rather than simply illustrating Alice's conversation about identity, the collage transforms the Caterpillar into a distinctly Boschian creature. It assumes a hybrid body, somewhere between human, insect, and machine, surrounded by fantastical architectural forms inspired by The Garden of Earthly Delights. Alice stands before the figure as if witnessing a metamorphosis in progress, reinforcing one of Carroll's central themes: identity as something fluid, unstable, and constantly changing.

 

 Reado about this book according to Semperlux here

 

 

Lewis Carroll na Era Vitoriana 

 

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In Lewis Carroll na Era Vitoriana: Outras Histórias de Alice (Lewis Carroll in the Victorian Era: Other Alice Stories), written by Katia Canton and illustrated by Adriana Peliano (DCL, 2010), Bosch is not used simply as an artistic reference, but as a world into which Alice can enter. Throughout the book, characters such as the Caterpillar, Humpty Dumpty, and the White Rabbit are reimagined within scenes inspired by The Garden of Earthly Delights, blending Carroll's nonsense with Bosch's dreamlike creatures, hybrid beings, and fantastical landscapes.

Rather than illustrating Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the book places Alice in dialogue with the history of art, treating Bosch as a visual language of metamorphosis and imagination. In retrospect, this approach anticipates Garden of Alicinations, where Bosch's garden becomes the dreamlike landscape of Alice's unconscious.

Read about this book according to Semperlux here.

AI-CE Looking-Glass, the new book by Adriana Peliano

AI-CE Looking-Glass

Images: Adriana Peliano & AI

Quotes: Lewis Carroll

Production: Sociedade Lewis Carroll do Brasil

São Paulo: Edição da autora, 2024.

124 pp. 20 cm x 20 cm. Hardcover

100 numbered and signed copies

 

 

AI-CE by Adriana Peliano

 

AI-CE

Imagens: Adriana Peliano & AI

Citações: Lewis Carroll

Produção: Sociedade Lewis Carroll do Brasil

São Paulo: Edição da autora, 2024.

124 pp. 20 cm x 20 cm. Capa dura

 

 

 

 

AI-CE vai sair na revista Knight Letter, da Lewis Carroll Society of North America.

Thanks to Mark Burstein, carrollian expert, editor and alicedelic white rabbit.

 

Adriana Peliano’s exhilarating AI°CE: Reimagining the Alice Books is a delightful yet haunting romp through Wonderland. Quotations from the work occasionally enhance the experience, but the sixty two-page spreads of images are the real story. She is a truly brilliant AI artist who has spent many hours on each image. The journey can be at times light and lovely or dark and disturbing, but always symbolic and surreal. No one who is reading these words is likely to experience Alice for the first time, but wandering through this book’s pages is probably as close as one can come. Highly recommended.

- Mark Burstein, Knight Letter 112 (Spring 2024), forthcoming

 

 

Leia no Kindle na Amazon, ou compre comigo o seu exemplar.

 

“Quem sou eu no mundo? Ah! Esse é o grande enigma.” Se Alice conta a respeito de quem somos, do que somos, da vida, do mundo, dos nossos caminhos iniciáticos, dos mergulhos, das sombras, das crises, das provas, dos pesadelos, dos obstáculos, das superações e da busca incessante de sentido, fica um convite para reler Alice como um desafio para reinventar a vida.

 

Este livro é um mergulho no desconhecido. Após anos de conversas com Alice nas mais diversas leituras, artes e linguagens durante essa jornada de incessante reimaginação, resolvi criar um projeto com imagens geradas com IA. Os prompts — textos de comando usados para gerar as imagens — foram criados por descrições, estilos, parâmetros, fotos de minhas próprias bonecas, colagens e assemblagens, desafiando a experimentação incessante em um processo de múltiplas transformações.

 

 

 

 

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“As aventuras de Alice dentro da toca do coelho ou através do espelho encoraja a procurarmos outras brechas para penetrarmos no maravilhoso.” Pierre Mabille (Mirror of the Marvelous: The Surrealist Reimagining of Myth) 

 

Imagem criada por Adriana Peliano num híbrido de AI (Midjourney) e colagem digital (photoshop) com base em ilustração colorizada de John Tenniel para Alice no país das maravilhas (imagem 4, na lagoa de lágrimas)

Meu artigo no catálogo da exposição "As aventuras de Alice"no Farol Santander. Concepção e curadoria: Rodrigo Gontijo

 

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My Alices in Farol Santander exhibition "As aventuras de Alice"

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STThe visitor strolls through a Cabinet of Curiosities, including some assemblages and collages created by me, Adriana Peliano (artist and president of the Lewis Carroll Society of Brazil). There you could find illustrations by the challenging American artist Maggie Taylor on the wall, who confront the story of photography with contemporary digital technology, playing with dreams and metalinguistic approach to historical representation of women. In the same room, from my collection, books with illustrations by Andrea D’Aquino, Made Balbat, Robert Ingpen, Iassen Ghiuselev and Oleg Lipchenko among others are displayed with objects upon them carefully chosen as coming out of the books. It was a pleasure for me to play with miniatures, strange and sinister dolls reminding the animations by Jan Švankmajer, Tenniel illustrations as detachable puzzles, subjective glimpses of unconscious emerging.

 

"Alice and the Seven Keys - a Pharmacopeia of Creativity" written & illustrated by Adriana Peliano

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 "Alice and the Seven Keys - a Pharmacopeia of Creativity"

published ‎in 2021 by @amascoteeditora (Portuguese) @underlinepublishing (English)

During the start of the pandemic in 2020, Peliano used Carroll's characters to come up with an idea to improve our humdrum lives: through seven "keys", we can use Alice "potions" to transform any situation.

"In Alice and the Seven Keys, Adriana Peliano accompanies you on a journey, exploring your creativity by means of games, magical elixirs, & her resplendent collages. Lovers of Alice, fantasy, fairy tales, and dreams will be enchanted." 

Mark Burstein, President Emeritus The Lewis Carroll Society of North America 

She lists these 7 potions using her signature metamorphic collages:

1: Cover: Alice moves 7 times. The number is significant: 

7 is the only prime number preceding a cube.

7 is the Aliquot sum of 8, & is the base of the 7-Aliquot tree.

7 is the only dimension, besides 3, in which a vector cross product can be defined.

7 is the lowest dimension of a known exotic sphere

 

2: Alice wears her Max Ernst thinking cap, like the Hogwarts Sorting Hat, & decides her fate by choosing which door to open

 

3: Metamorphic elixir 1: "Alicescopic Curiouserism". Ingredients: Petals of Alicedelic Perplexity. Flame of burning curiosity. Attraction to the unknown. Make-believe yeast. High dose of initiative. Invitation from the universe

4: "Logiclock Time": Petals of Alicedelic Tac Tic. Antidote of pointless pointer. Spirals of peace & love with time. Lushness of now. Synchronicity activator. Serendipity liquor

5: "Alicinatic Travel Formula": Petals of Magicomic Delusions. Soluble memories of a storyteller. Water from the river where Alice was born. Labyrinthine Footsteps. Mary Poppins wind. Lucid dreams

6: "Alicedelic Metamorflower": Petals of Alicedelic Chrysalices. Butterfly Breath Medicinalis. Smoke from transflowermations. Alchemical cocoons. Much room

 

 

 

7: "Flowersophical Madness": Petals of Alicinatory Folly. Extract of stone of madness. Flowersophical paradoxes. Tea of thinking differently. Vision of the invisible. Magic from a Mad Hat

8: "Mathematical Games": Petals of Alicinaris ludens. Tincture of white & red roses. Wrap of porte-manteaux. Sine qua nonsense extract. Vitaminutes of Impossible geometries. Paradoxical paregoric

 

9: At the end, do you arrive at the peaceful Giverny garden of Claude Monet?

 

10: Or at the false paradise of earthly pleasures of Hieronymus Bosch?  Swim in the bath of Venus, but look, the fountain is cracked, this garden of Lust & Vice is ephemeral, & will not satisfy you for long

 

 

 

"This is the panel from which the title Garden of Earthly Delights was derived. Here Bosch’s humans, the offspring of Adam and Eve, gambol freely in a surrealistic paradisiacal garden, appearing as mad manifestations of a whimsical creator—sensate cogs of nature alive in a larger, animate machine. It is a matter of divided opinion as to what, exactly, the humans are actually doing in this delightful, dense and nonsensical landscape, alive with a dizzying array of some of Bosch’s most delectable creatures and dotted with his alembic architecture. It is almost as though he imagined the world of creation as a terrific Willy Wonka series of machines with humans as their product." Dr. Sally Hickson

Adriana Peliano: "What could happen to the inhabitants of Wonderland after that strange collective nightmare. The scare over, they would open the door to a new world and a transformed life. Alice would learn to remain calm in the face of challenges and conflicts. The Rabbit relaxed inside his hole without a clock and would no longer be late. He was going to have tea with the Hatter, the Impossible, and Time itself. Then the Queen of Hearts would emerge. She would finally lose her mind and embrace the Heart. The butterfly would come out of the cocoon and go on a journey of self-knowledge. The Cat would invite the new to happen, traveling in imagination with a wide, lunatic smile." 

 

 

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