"Curiouser and curiouser." -Alice, Adventures in Wonderland

Currently befuddling my way

through depressing metaphorical mountains of art that I "really-should-have-done-before-now-and-not-left-till-the-last-minute"! (Again).

I truly do feel sorry for my art teacher. Anyway, I thought I'd put my half finished study up here while I try and scoot about for some inspiration.

The picture opposite is a (half finished) study of one of Sir John Tenniel's illustrations for the first Alice in Wonderland book. I've lost my favourite fine liner and the pen I was using just now has sputtered out and died. After much profuse cursing I decided to rant about it on here. I must confess I feel more and more disgusted by it each time I look at it. It looks much better big, trust.

The title for the project is 'Twisted and Interwined'. A beauty of a title for sure, so why aren't I sprouting art out of my ears!? Alas and if only. I have chosen to meander my way down the route of twisted story tales. This led me to stuffing my Alice-look-alike of a sister into a swimming costume and into a box and taking pictures. The idea here being that the large Alice is too big (hence lack of clothes) and is all twisted up in the confined space. Then I went on to taking photos on a set that gave the appearance of Alice being awash in the huge dress she is now too small for and all interwined in. Sneaky, no?

Anyway, after using those photos to create a large scale exam piece on a freezer box (the idea being you could sit inside it and be confronted with the sheer scale of the Alices) I have struck, with a gong, a huge dead end.

I might be doing another shoot of a friend dressed as Snow White and have her being choked on an apple as the Queen strangles her. That would be twisted visually and so is the plot... Another idea is to look at Belle from Beauty and the Beast from the angle of 'maybe this girl is mentally unstable', I mean who knows? I am so behind it is unreal, I haven't been messing about too much, I've just had too many other commitments. I guess art just gets pushed to the bottom. Depressing really, seeing as it's the subject I am most passionate about.

Oh smeg, I really need a new fine liner.