Up: [[Illustrated Journals]] Related: [[Alice in Wonderland]] Created: 2023-07-29 Updated: 2023-08-15 Course: Inside a Creative Notebook with Karishma Chugani for Domestika The pages in this journal were made between [[2023-07-29]] and [[2023-08-15]] To get ready for this first illustrated journal, I rewatched an excellent course on Domestika, *Inside a Creative Notebook*. The first page is a sort of modified calligram. I thought a calligram was any writing in a visual shape, but it’s actually when the words are arranged to form a related image. The image made by the words illustrates the text, providing a really close link between image and word, which is something that really interests me. The poet Guillaume Apollinaire was the most famous calligram writer. The words around my image read > [!orbit] Me >I yearn this summer to go down Alice’s rabbit hole; to land in a Wonderland where I am amazed by what I find. I want the unexpected, the unplanned, the surprising, the amazing. This book is my illustrated journal devoted to Alice and to whatever creative offspring that appeals to me. I will also have notes in Temenos and will do those throughout the fifteen days of John’s Gong. This is going to be so much fun, hopefully an unbounded, wild, open Wonderland. ![[Alice calligram (sketchbook)).webp|500]] Things didn’t quite turn out as I’d hoped, as we’ll see. And I didn’t make notes other than the one page of [[Alice in Wonderland]]. ![[Alice Down the Rabbit Hole (sketchbook).webp]] The annotations about letterplay were the most interesting thing in this chapter for me. That and the little factoid that it would take 42 minutes to fall to the centre of the earth. To go down a rabbit hole means to have a burning curiosity about something. ![[Alice Curiouser Dialogue (sketchbook).webp]] I’m irritated by Alice as early as chapter 2. Great line though — *Her feet were so far away from her body she’d have to send them Christmas gifts by mail.* ![[Alice Chapters 3-5 (sketchbook).webp]] Interesting little tidbits in these three chapters, most of them from the annotations, such as about toxic and non-toxic mushrooms, and Carroll being very interested in the occult. From the book itself, I really like the racing in a circle. So egalitarian! ![[Alice Pig and Pepper (sketchbook).webp]] I love one guy’s suggestion that when the Cheshire Cat vanishes except for its grin, the grin may be the waning moon, which has also been associated with lunacy, same as the cat and everyone in Wonderland. Again, this is an annotation. It would never have occurred to me. ![[Alice the Mad Tea Party (sketchbook).webp]] This was a decent chapter because of the annotations. I’m still annoyed with Alice as seen on the left where I’m completely in league with the Hatter in not wanting her to talk because she doesn’t think. ![[Alice Chapters 8-10 (sketchbook).webp]] I laughed out loud, mostly due to the annotations and particularly Gardner’s declaration that the book *shouldn’t be allowed to circulate indiscriminately among adults who are undergoing analysis*. ![[Alice Who Stole the Tarts (sketchbook).webp]] A good chapter. I didn’t know that it was Lewis Carroll who made the Queen of Hearts nursery rhyme famous. ![[Alice Evidence (sketchbook).webp]] Great annotations about Carroll’s affection for the number 42, although we don’t actually know why he preferred that number so much that he gave it as his age even when he was five years younger. And I love the Dali image on the right page.