Wonderland Series by Kirsty Mitchell
Kirsty Mitchell’s late mother Maureen was an English teacher who spent her life inspiring generations of children with imaginative stories and plays. Following Maureen’s death from a brain tumour in 2008, Kirsty channelled her grief into her passion for photography.
She retreated behind the lens of her camera and created Wonderland, an ethereal fantasy world. The photographic series began as a small summer project but grew into an inspirational creative journey. ‘Real life became a difficult place to deal with, and I found myself retreating further into an alternative existence through the portal of my camera,’ said the artist.
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For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory. To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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“You must tell the truth about a subject to a child as well as you are able without any mitigating of that truth. You must allow that children are small, courageous people who deal every day with a multitude of problems, just as adults do, and that they are unprepared for most things. What they yearn for most is a bit of truth somewhere.” - Maurice Sendak
preliminary drawing of Max from Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak circa 1963 :: scanned from The Art of Maurice Sendak :: Abrams Books :: 2003
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blueruins:Alice’s Adventures Under Ground. The original, handwritten manuscript, illustrated by Lewis Carroll.
