“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing woulf be what it is because everything would be what it isn’t . And contrary-wise. what it is it wouldn’t be, and what it wouldn’t be, it would, you see?” - Alice.

As part of my contextual research, i took out a very informative book from the library, 'Alice in Wonderland : Through the Visual Arts'. The book was bases on an exhibition in the Tate gallery in Liverpool, the subject being the numerous works of art inspired by Lewis Carrolls classic. Various images from numerous artists (most notably for me, Dalí and the Pre Raphaelites) and essays on the strange philosophy of the story. One essay was centred around the use and exploration of space and time in the book. (As Alice falls down the rabbit hole, she tumbles through a deep abyss of space, yet gravity does not seem to exist as it does in our world. She plucks a jar of orange marmalade from a shelf halfway down the rabbit hole and, while falling, seems to contemplate finding the jar and places it back on another shelf.) Essentially, the discussion on the character falling through the rabbit hole challenged my own sense of space and fitted neatly into my topic of exploration.