Synopsis Pt. 1

It's not really finished... or particularly coherent.

Lewis Carroll's Adventures in Wonderland provides a physical removal from reality by creating a fantastical world and adventure in the mind of a young girl. I want to take this idea of reality and turn it into a series of images using the book as my inspiration. I intend to use the more artistic nature of experimental photography for my final piece. I want explore Lomography because I feel the dissimilar and disjointed nature of this almost cult practice fits in perfectly with not only Alice’s adventures in wonderland but also my focus of converging the idea of reality and dream life. Dreams can basically be lost memories, past events and even fantasies that we relive during our unconscious hours of the day. Perhaps Lewis Carroll describes the nature of dreams best. He contemplates the definition of insanity by saying, "... May we not then sometimes define insanity as an inability to distinguish which is the waking and which is the sleeping life?"

While I am using the book as my inspiration, I’m not re-enacting the storyline. I just want to capture random coincidental images and find this concept of a ‘wonderland’ within the ruins of Bradford.

So far I’ve used a model to pose with the characters I have made around surprisingly ‘natural’ areas in town, but I’ve made him (dressed at a contemporary Mad Hatter) the primary focus so far. On a philosophical side note I thought it’d be more interesting than concentrating on Alice. I felt it related well to the saying “In the kingdom of the blind, the one eyed man is king.”