Literary Wonderlands: A Journey Through the Greatest Fictional Worlds Ever Created

ABOUT RABBIT HOLES, SHAMANS, HEALERS

"Rabbit Hole Metaphor for the conceptual path which is thought to lead to the true nature of reality. Infinitesimally deep and complex, venturing too far down is probably not that great of an idea."

... So close your eyes, and listen to the rhythm of the drum, mirroring the beat of your heart. Imagine yourself in a sacred meadow, peering into a wide crack in the earth. Are you ready to journey through the rabbit hole?" source

 

150 Alices Falling Together by Lewis Carroll Society of Brazil

White Rabbit Vortex by Tweedle Guns 

Cheshire Night by Tweedle Guns

Alicedelic Tweedle Guns 

From "10 Clues to Unlock Paris"

10 Clues to Unlock Paris from MESSY NESSY - Cabinet of chic curiosities

BEYOND THE MIRROR at Clouste Gulbenkian Museum Portugal

"Beyond the Mirror, a title that deliberately alludes to the world of Alice Liddell, the heroine created by Lewis Carroll (1832-1898), is a thematic exhibition, which takes the mirror as its main focus. The intention is to show the polysemic presence of this object in the iconography of European art, particularly within painting, but also in sculpture, books, photography and film."

Eduardo Luiz (Braga, 1932 – Paris, 1988). 
“Alice’s hand [La Main d’Alice]”, 1983

"Mirrors are particularly interesting objects since they have the ability to transport us to other dimensions, leading us into the realms of spirituality, dreams, or even nightmares. 

Artists employ mirrors for various reasons, as they can both reveal and disguise elements of the scenes that are represented. They offer infinite visual possibilities including, most obviously, that of accurately reflecting reality."

Wladimir Lukianowitsch von Zabotin 

 

(Buschinka-Niemerowskaja, 1884 – Karlsruhe, 1967). 

“The girl in the mirror [Mädchen im Spiegel]”, 1922-27. 

Childhood - strange puzzle

many artists

INFANCIA

Hora en que la yerba crece

en la memoria del caballo.

El viento pronuncia discursos ingenuos

en honor de las lilas,

y alguien entra en la muerte

con los hojos abiertos

como Alicia en el país de lo ya visto.

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ALEJANDRA PIZARNIK e o jardim proibido

Twisted dreams by Sonya Hurtado

"This series of twelve images by Hackney based photographer Sonya Hurtado explores the imaginary world of childhood. A world where children enco"unter and must navigate complex feelings of isolation, fear and despair. Set in the context of fairy tales and children’s stories, the images are conceived almost like paintings, full of colour and vibrancy. With inspiration from surrealism, film and much more, the manipulation of shadow, light and colour creates a playful and at times almost sinister atmosphere."

  

Sonya Hurtado 

 Sonya Hurtado 

 Sonya Hurtado 

 Sonya Hurtado 

Sonya Hurtado

MAIA FLORE calling my dreams...

 

 Maia Flore

 Maia Flore

SITE maia flore

"Com Alices reviajo no país dos espelhos por caminhos espiralados e mergulho numa floresta misteriosa onde se perde e se encontra essa menina rompiecabezas, plurilíngua, borboletra alicenógena, proliflora desejos em casulos oníricos fantasmagorias deliram psicodelícias. Amaravilhas. Vislumbro um rio de florosofias errantes, espelhos líquidos, clepsidras lúdicas, Lúcia no céu com diamantes. Sonhos de Escher dançam geometrias impossíveis. Cabelos revoam anéis de Moebius. 

Aliceoscópios são uma singular criação catóptrica, uma arte de conceber engenhos especulares que criam visões insólitas, perspectivas paradoxais, geografias exdruxulistas, cartografias escalafobéticas. Num golpe de máquina o espelho mutante de Alice viaja através de tempos loucos e sonhos quânticos em uma inesgotável “sede do infinito”. Sua experimentação exige constante movimento, um amor pelo estranho e indomesticável, libertando armadilhas do conhecido. Alikezan! Alices extrapolam saberes cômodos e estagnados e vão viver novas aventuras desafiando fontes de desejos e desfiando teias e constelações em novos feixes de fabulações. CURIOUSER and curiouser! Estou me esticando agora como o maior telescópio jamais visto. Adeus pés!" 

Alicis Especularis por Adriana Peliano

 Maia Flore

 

 Maia Flore

 

"But if I'm not the same, the next question is, Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle!'

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percussion / character untold / we are infinite

Magical White Rabbit

Metamorphosis of Lissy Elle

'"I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir' said Alice, 
'because I'm not myself, you see.' 

'I don't see,' said the Caterpillar. 

'I'm afraid I can't put it more clearly,' Alice replied very politely, 'for I can't understand it myself to begin with; and being so many different sizes in a day is very confusing.' 'It isn't,' said the Caterpillar. 'Well, perhaps you haven't found it so yet,' said Alice; 'but when you have to turn into a chrysalis — you will some day, you know — and then after that into a butterfly, I should think you'll feel it a little queer, won't you?' 

'Not a bit,' said the Caterpillar. 

'Well, perhaps your feelings may be different,' said Alice; 
'all I know is, it would feel very queer to me.' '

You!' said the Caterpillar contemptuously. 'Who are you?'"

Alice in Wonderland (1865).

"I've Spread Myself Too thin"

LISSY ELLE site

more of Lissy Elle and Alice

"'Curiouser and curiouser!' cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English); 'now I'm opening out like the largest telescope that ever was! Good-bye, feet!'"

Alice in Wonderland (1865).

Wonder Wander lands by Katerina Plotnikova

All pictures by Katerina Plotnikova

"And if Alice were not in the dress, but in its folds? 

If she were not in the blue material, but in the shadow and the light of a multicolor prism? 

If she were not in the hair, but in the rumors of its movement? 

Not in the apron, but in the traces of an intimate encounter? 

Not in the shoes, but in the steps into the unknown and the uncertainty about which path to take? 

Not in the pictures, but in the conversations? 

Not in the conversations, but in the question marks? 

Not in the words, but in the pauses that breathe between them? 

Not in the behavior, but in the beating of the heart? 

Not in a face, but in a dream? 

Not in a being, but in the becoming?"

Text from my article Alice in 7 fits

Who in the world am I?

I love  Colette Saint Yves!

Colette Saint Yves

Colette Saint Yves

Colette Saint Yves

Colette Saint Yves

Colette Saint Yves

Site of the artist

"… reader's surrogate on a frightful journey into meaningless night"

Alice (1988) by Jan Švankmajer

Jabberwocky (1973) by Jan Švankmajer

Adriana Peliano 

The next pictures are not exactly Alice inspired, but

inspire me to make some questions that Alice keeps asking….



Colette Saint Yves

Kati Horna

Ruth Bernhard, Creation, 1936

Ruth Bernhard, Broken Doll, 1938

Fred Stein, [Doll in glass jar], ca. 1935

Rosalind Solomon

Frank Horvart

"And if the doll in the photograph is reflecting who we are and what we have become, 

then it’s more than just a frightening glimpse in the mirror." 

source: Fans in a flashbulb

                              They lie now next to the dreams of those who once held them"

Tennessee Williams, 1982.

source: Dolls: objects of inanimate affection

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