Influence Images: Psychedelia and Drugs

Initial Ideas: A Dark Alice

 I have always loved macabre imagery and its application to children's stories. I always found something very interesting about dark twists and connotations in folk tales and children's stories, in a way it makes the stories appeal to a wider and more mature audience. In popular culture currently there is a trend in films being made or remade to be more macabre and to have a much darker ambiance, for example the new Superman movie (Man Of Steel 2013) and The Dark Knight trilogy both of which were made a lot darker than their predecessors. Below are a few images of a dark Alice In Wonderland which I came across in my research, this kind of imagery is the kind I would like to use in my interpretation of this classic children's tale.

Two versions of a dark Alice (above).

The Dark Knight's version of The Joker (above) compared to the original film
version of The Joker (below).

Alice In Wonderland

For our project brief we were given Lewis Carroll's Alice In Wonderland to use as a starting point for our own interpretation. After studying the brief I decided to start looking for inspiration in every art form and came across many initial references to Lewis Carroll's Alice In Wonderland which I will study in further detail later.

"Where is the wonder where's the awe 

Where's dear Alice knocking on the door 

Where's the trapdoor that takes me there 

Where's the real is shattered by a Mad March Hare" 

(I Want My Tears Back - Nightwish)

A screen shot from Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland which is actually based on Lewis
Carroll's second novel Through The Looking Glass.

A screenshot from Disney's Interpretation

Alice has often been used as an inspiration in fashion photo shoots.

Alice has also been used as an inspiration in both
art (see above) and photography (see below).