"How queer everything is today! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning?" -Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
"I almost think I can remember feeling a little
different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is, Who in the world am
I? Ah, that's the great puzzle!"- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
"Never imagine
yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were
or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared
to them to be otherwise." -Alice's Adventure in Wonderland
When I first started this I had no real purpose, I used the excuse that it was art. But when I started to look at it and I began to think about how through the simple act of cutting up a sentence you can new ideas and new phrases, each one dealing with how we change and how we are perceived. The reason I used flowers and water are because they are two things that are ever changing, the changes might not always be noticeable, but they are always there. You may wake up one morning to see flowers, that had just been little buds the day before, blooming in your garden. Or the never which is changing constantly, new water is flowing through slowly rubbing away at rocks and silt in its path, changing routes depending on the water levels. I used this project to take a look at how little changes can change the way we look at things.
My remix project combined a few of my favorite things, photography, water, and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. My sources were generally my own materials,; all the pictures of the water and the flowers that were used were my own materials, different pictures that I have taken over the years., the flowers came from D.C, a few from the Virgin Islands, and one or two from Virginia Beach. All the pictures of the water came from my trip to the James River a year ago. The three quotes from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, were picked up from the Project Gutenberg website, all of the quotes are in the public domain. I know the story pretty well and was able to find quotes that I really liked and thought world fit.
Photoshop CS3 became my best friend during this project as that was where I was able to cut all the flowers, give them filters, and put the words in the pictures with out any problems. I used a lot of different filters, including but not only crosshatch, poster edges, and film grain. In an effort to create a three dimensional look, I used the magnetic lasso, to cut certain things, create new layers and then put that new layer over the flower.