Alice’s Adventures in Low Brow: David Nicolato

// March 5th, 2010 // b-inspired // Lawrence


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I picked up Camille Rose Garcia’s new version of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” the other day. The drawings are exquisite and Ms. Garcia’s ominous take on my favorite story is more than fitting. To me, this story has always had a somewhat foreboding quality.
I felt a little bewildered, however, by the deluge of  ”Doe Eyes”.  Every character in the book has those despondent, inanimate, “Low Brow” eyes, the kind one sees in almost every contemporary Pop Surrealistic image today.

While Ms. Garcia’s style befits Carroll’s premise of a dissected Utopia, I am enamored by those lifeless eyes, almost to the point of distraction.  The images sometimes overpower the story instead of illuminating it. Carroll’s words are like captions for her paintings.

I have been looking for a connection between Alice and “Low Brow” for many years now and congratulations to Ms. Garcia for being allowed to interpret this amazing story in her own anomalous style. She is a talented and consummate artist and an aspiration of mine.  Since Carroll provides little description of these characters in his text, perhaps this makes them the most open for interpretation, thus the most open for discussion.

This is our first ever guest blog written by David Nicolato and sourced from the Blog Pool group at b-uncut.net. Any member at b-uncut can go to the group and suggest their own entries for our public blog.

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