Alice has conquered everyone’s heart with her amazing story for many years and many years to come. What does it all mean? Why is Alice and her trip to Wonderland so compelling to us that many artists still become inspired by it?
Going down the rabbit hole is a commonly used phrase in today’s art and literature, a metaphor referring to a state of confusion and chaos. What was Lewis Carroll really telling us?
What started as my way of interpreting the story took me down the rabbit hole. I ended up seeing my own weird world highlighted by the characters and concepts that Carroll created in his beloved story.
Look where his story took me.
The whole series is made by single-block reduction print technique, or as Pablo Picasso referred to as: “Suicide Printing”.
Zeynep Banu Alev, Seattle 2013
Artist Statement: “Great Escape” January 2016
“Alice has conquered everyone’s heart with her amazing story for many years and many years to come. What does it all mean? Why is Alice and her trip to Wonderland so compelling to us that many artists still become inspired by it?
Going down the rabbit hole is commonly used phrase in today’s art and literature, a metaphor referring to a state of confusion and chaos. What was Lewis Carroll really telling us?
What it started as my way of interpreting the story took me down the rabbit hole. I ended up seeing my own weird world highlighted by the characters and concepts that Carroll created in his beloved story. “
This is what I wrote for my artist statement for “Alice seldom follows her own advice.” back in 2013. Passing years have not changed things much and I have continued to add more to my Alice collection. The story still haunts me and inspires me every day.
This time I called my show “Great Escape”.
This is a yearning for a better future, for a better world for my children. I am overwhelmed by all brutal news coming all around the world nowadays. I wish “a world of what it isn’t “would exist and we, all earthlings live in peace and harmony…
Zeynep B. Alev January 2016
“Alice has conquered everyone’s heart with her amazing story for many years and many years to come. What does it all mean? Why is Alice and her trip to Wonderland so compelling to us that many artists still become inspired by it?
Going down the rabbit hole is commonly used phrase in today’s art and literature, a metaphor referring to a state of confusion and chaos. What was Lewis Carroll really telling us?
What it started as my way of interpreting the story took me down the rabbit hole. I ended up seeing my own weird world highlighted by the characters and concepts that Carroll created in his beloved story. “
This is what I wrote for my artist statement for “Alice seldom follows her own advice.” back in 2013. Passing years have not changed things much and I have continued to add more to my Alice collection. The story still haunts me and inspires me every day.
This time I called my show “Great Escape”.
This is a yearning for a better future, for a better world for my children. I am overwhelmed by all brutal news coming all around the world nowadays. I wish “a world of what it isn’t “would exist and we, all earthlings live in peace and harmony…
Zeynep B. Alev January 2016