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chelseagirl) wrote2021-01-12 07:05 am
chelseagirl) wrote2021-01-12 07:05 am
January Talk -- My Alice Icon
January 12: Tell me about your icon and where and why you got it! Alice is one of my favourites too. (kore)
I have a couple of altered Alice icons (one with an astrolabe and one where she's putting on a tophat with goggles, from my steampunk days) which a friend made for me, but this one I actually made myself. Hence its stark simplicity. *cough*
The first chapter of my dissertation was on representations of the legal system in the Alice books. (There was later an article version, in a journal called Law and Literature.) At one of the colleges where I was teaching as an adjunct, I taught a seminar on Lewis Carroll a couple of times. And while I'd always collected a bit on Alice, around that time, I started to seek out different illustrated editions; people started giving me Alice-themed gifts, and so on. So it seemed appropriate to have an Alice icon -- and this was always one of my favorite Tenniel images.
I identify with Alice so much in this picture -- so often life feels like a session of Flamingo-wrangling!
I have a couple of altered Alice icons (one with an astrolabe and one where she's putting on a tophat with goggles, from my steampunk days) which a friend made for me, but this one I actually made myself. Hence its stark simplicity. *cough*
The first chapter of my dissertation was on representations of the legal system in the Alice books. (There was later an article version, in a journal called Law and Literature.) At one of the colleges where I was teaching as an adjunct, I taught a seminar on Lewis Carroll a couple of times. And while I'd always collected a bit on Alice, around that time, I started to seek out different illustrated editions; people started giving me Alice-themed gifts, and so on. So it seemed appropriate to have an Alice icon -- and this was always one of my favorite Tenniel images.
I identify with Alice so much in this picture -- so often life feels like a session of Flamingo-wrangling!