Alice in Wonderland Syndrome
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My goal for the perception of my piece, was to create something that was a little confusing or surreal to observe. One of my favorite movies when I was younger was Coraline, so I correlated the tunnel between her worlds with the multi layered setting of Wonderland, and used it as my background. I printed part of it onto a canvas and then painted the rest for my base. Then, I picked all of the main characters from Wonderland and distorted them from their original form. I also chose some real images of things like water, dice and cards, and little girls having a tea party to incorporate as well. I printed them out, cut them out, and mod-podged them down to my canvas in layers to make them look bigger or smaller in relation to one another to mess with your perspective.
English
What I decided to do for English was do brief "journal entries" from each of the most significant characters that Alice meets throughout her trip in Wonderland. I chose the White Rabbit, Absolem, the Cheshire Cat, and Hatter, of course. I personally chose the material I wrote on, the 'handwriting style' I used, and even the color of my pen based off of each characters personal life. The White Rabbit wrote on a dirty, crumpled up piece of paper in a big rush of red pen, Absolem on very frail paper with big blue cursive letters. Cheshire wrote on wood and has no knowledge of when, and when not to, capitalize letters in pink and purple pen. And lastly, my favorite, Hatter covered a yellowed and burned up piece of paper with his scattered chicken scratch handwriting in green pen. I intend for each one to be read precisely in their voices and with the different tweak each of them have in their verbal literacy. These will be difficult for someone to follow along with who doesn't know the movie very well, for their thoughts are all very scattered.
Civics
Lastly, for civics, my assignment was to choose political memes and give them/find their significance to politics. I researched the basics of taking sides on politics as far as what it means to be a liberal vs. a democrat and used it to give multiple perspectives for each meme. My slideshow is quite bias to my own opinions, still presenting a perspective, but still cuts into what the other side would verbalize about these memes. Memes are basically a modern version of political cartoons, but those that are popular, tend to have a different meaning originally vs. the way they're used politically. For example, infamous things like Pepe or the Instagram egg can be used in various ways, wether that's this way or not.
Annotated Bibliography:
“Alice In Wonderland : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming.” Internet Archive, 1 Jan. 1970, https://archive.org/details/AliceInWonderland1951.
This is just a website I found so I could watch the movie for free in school, since I have it on DVD at home. I grew up on this movie being one of my favorites, and I’ve already rewatched it 3x already to write my characters journal entries.
“Alice in Wonderland Syndrome.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 23 Sept. 2019, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_in_Wonderland_syndrome.
Appelbaum, Yoni. “Impeach Donald Trump.” The Atlantic, Atlantic Media Company, 22 Jan. 2019, https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/03/impeachment-trump/580468/.
This website was very helpful with pulling things for my slideshow, and had me looking up other bits and pieces of the details within the events pointed out. I liked that this website was thorough and put things in chronological order because it was easier for me to follow along with and understand. I’m also not someone that is into politics, so typically I get confused reading things in relation to, but this one I didn’t.
“Can a Meme Be a Hate Symbol?” The New York Times, The New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2016/10/03/can-a-meme-be-a-hate-symbol-6/internet-memes-are-value-neutral-but-do-reflect-cultural-moments?module=inline.
This writer helped me a lot with how I was taking in the perspective of these memes and their significance. It had me looking more into Pepe the Frog and other infamous memes to better understand how and why they are used the way they are. It grounded exactly what I discussed with Mr. Wimmer about how memes don’t actually have any value, but yet they still put many things up in the air for people to debate.
“Man with 'Alice in Wonderland Syndrome' Watches Computer Icons Leap Off Screen.” LiveScience, Purch, https://www.livescience.com/64520-alice-in-wonderland-brain-tumor.html.
Rathore, Elia. “Living in the Age of Political Memes.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 23 Apr. 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/23/style/india-pakistan-political-memes.html.
Serenity, Secrets Of. “I Have Alice In Wonderland Syndrome.” YouTube, YouTube, 15 Dec. 2017, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2IKSp9PwFw.
This video was very helpful for my view on this topic. The girl in this video, Serenity, described her feelings and hallucinations with words that made it better to ‘feel’ what it’s like for people with this syndrome. Some of her stories stuck with me more than others, and actually inspired part of my visual arts piece. Serenity talks about her body ‘sinking into itself’, why she fears certain things, and what her triggers are.
SparkNotes, SparkNotes, https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/alice/facts/.
TV, Red Carpet News. “Johnny Depp Interview Alice Through The Looking Glass Premiere.” YouTube, YouTube, 9 May 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37u53V2jMzc.
I’ve always admired Johnny Depp for his thorough representation of characters, and in playing the Mad Hatter, he did just that. He is the type to do the research to fully understand his parts and ‘become’ a character. In this video, he talks about emotions and even physicalities about the Hatter that I’ve never thought. It helps me in the long run with my journal entries and understanding of this dissection of character.
“Wonderland Characters.” Wonderland Characters | Alice 150 Years, https://www.lib.umd.edu/alice150/alice-in-wonderland/wonderland-characters#whiterabbit.
“Alice In Wonderland : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming.” Internet Archive, 1 Jan. 1970, https://archive.org/details/AliceInWonderland1951.
This is just a website I found so I could watch the movie for free in school, since I have it on DVD at home. I grew up on this movie being one of my favorites, and I’ve already rewatched it 3x already to write my characters journal entries.
“Alice in Wonderland Syndrome.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 23 Sept. 2019, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_in_Wonderland_syndrome.
Appelbaum, Yoni. “Impeach Donald Trump.” The Atlantic, Atlantic Media Company, 22 Jan. 2019, https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/03/impeachment-trump/580468/.
This website was very helpful with pulling things for my slideshow, and had me looking up other bits and pieces of the details within the events pointed out. I liked that this website was thorough and put things in chronological order because it was easier for me to follow along with and understand. I’m also not someone that is into politics, so typically I get confused reading things in relation to, but this one I didn’t.
“Can a Meme Be a Hate Symbol?” The New York Times, The New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2016/10/03/can-a-meme-be-a-hate-symbol-6/internet-memes-are-value-neutral-but-do-reflect-cultural-moments?module=inline.
This writer helped me a lot with how I was taking in the perspective of these memes and their significance. It had me looking more into Pepe the Frog and other infamous memes to better understand how and why they are used the way they are. It grounded exactly what I discussed with Mr. Wimmer about how memes don’t actually have any value, but yet they still put many things up in the air for people to debate.
“Man with 'Alice in Wonderland Syndrome' Watches Computer Icons Leap Off Screen.” LiveScience, Purch, https://www.livescience.com/64520-alice-in-wonderland-brain-tumor.html.
Rathore, Elia. “Living in the Age of Political Memes.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 23 Apr. 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/23/style/india-pakistan-political-memes.html.
Serenity, Secrets Of. “I Have Alice In Wonderland Syndrome.” YouTube, YouTube, 15 Dec. 2017, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2IKSp9PwFw.
This video was very helpful for my view on this topic. The girl in this video, Serenity, described her feelings and hallucinations with words that made it better to ‘feel’ what it’s like for people with this syndrome. Some of her stories stuck with me more than others, and actually inspired part of my visual arts piece. Serenity talks about her body ‘sinking into itself’, why she fears certain things, and what her triggers are.
SparkNotes, SparkNotes, https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/alice/facts/.
TV, Red Carpet News. “Johnny Depp Interview Alice Through The Looking Glass Premiere.” YouTube, YouTube, 9 May 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37u53V2jMzc.
I’ve always admired Johnny Depp for his thorough representation of characters, and in playing the Mad Hatter, he did just that. He is the type to do the research to fully understand his parts and ‘become’ a character. In this video, he talks about emotions and even physicalities about the Hatter that I’ve never thought. It helps me in the long run with my journal entries and understanding of this dissection of character.
“Wonderland Characters.” Wonderland Characters | Alice 150 Years, https://www.lib.umd.edu/alice150/alice-in-wonderland/wonderland-characters#whiterabbit.