Follow the White Rabbit

Based on “Alice in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll

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Brief 

I was asked to explore physical and digital processes by experimentation and play within modern publishing formats. I had to reimagine digitized archival material from Authorama and publicdomainreview.org.

Deliverables

An interactive pdf with hyper-links to videos, URLs, and QR codes.

It is something adventurous, curious, mysterious, questionable and queer…so be ready

Concept

I picked “Alice in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll to show one of the philosophical ideas hidden in this children’s book. As a child, I saw an amusing and fascinating story of a girl, on whose place some of us wanted to be. However, Looking back on this story now, being an adult, it seems to hide something else from us…or maybe it is just our nature, to search for hidden senses there, where it is just the confused thoughts of a madman.

The main characters are a white rabbit and Alice, who represents the reader. She falls into a rabbit hole full of tales and riddles and tries to get into the secret garden behind the tiny door. Every page takes us back to Alice’s adventure and asks questions, which resonate with adult us, trying to remind us about that curious child inside. 

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“I wonder how many miles I’ve fallen by this time?” she said aloud. “I must be getting somewhere near the centre of the earth. Let me see: that would be four thousand miles down, I think…yes, that’s about the right distance—but then I wonder what Latitude or Longitude I’ve got to?”

Alice opened the door and found that it led into a small passage, not much larger than a rat-hole: she knelt down and looked along the passage into the loveliest garden you ever saw. How she longed to get out of that dark hall, and wander about among those beds of bright flowers and those cool fountains, but she could not even get her head through the doorway

“No, I’ll look first,” she said, “and see whether it’s marked ’poison’ or not”

“And now for the garden!” And she ran with all speed back to the little door; but, alas! the little door was shut again, and the little golden key was lying on the glass table as before, “and things are worse than ever,” thought the poor child, “for I never was so small as this before, never! And I declare it’s too bad, that it is!”
“Come, there’s no use in crying like that!” said Alice to herself rather sharply. “I advise you to leave off this minute!

“I know something interesting is sure to happen,” she said to herself, “whenever I eat or drink anything: so I’ll just see what this bottle does. I do hope it’ll make me grow large again, for really I’m quite tired of being such a tiny little thing!”

“It was much pleasanter at home.”
Alice sighed wearily. “I think you might do something better with the time,” she said, “than wasting it in asking riddles that have no answers.”
“Now, I’ll manage better this time,”
“At any rate I’ll never go there again!”
Cover pages
the Rabbit says to itself, “Oh dear! Oh, dear! I shall be too late!”

Backstage

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