Alice

"Quaint girl, old fashioned Alice, lend your dream.
I would be done with modern story spinners,
Follow with you the laughter and the gleam:
Weary am I, this night, of saints and sinners.
We have been friends since lewis and old tenniel.
Housed your immorality in red and gold.
Come! Your naivete is a spring perennial.
Let me young again, before I am old.

You are a glass of youth, this night I choose.
Deep in your magic labyrinth to stray.
Where rants the red queen in her splendid hues.
And the white rabbit hurries on his way.
Let us once more adventure, hand in hand.
Give me belief again, in wonderland!

- Vincent Scarlett, in Brillig.

Alice in Wonderland has been the focus for many artworks, its sereal tale of adventures are exciting as well as inspirational. I for one love Alice, I wanted to be her as a little girl to escape the monotonous of the religious rules I had been drenched in throughout the years. She was exciting, a rebel, meeting talking animals and other psychedelic things. What is more exciting? However, although beautiful there is some ugliness and tremendous creepiness within this seemingly innocent childhood story.

Anna Gaskell quotes,
"So complicated and mysterious, we don't know anything about it, but we know enough, there is the possibility of child abuse, his longing for her, I like the danger about it and at some point I liked the world she lived in."

This in a quote is what I want to represent in my photographs, this seemingly innocentness but with the thought that something just isn't right. I want to present unease in my audience.