This body of work titled ‘Paradox in Wonderland’ has allowed me to push the boundaries of my vivid imagination to create something visually alluring and pleasing for the eye, but also something that tells a story. This is why I decided to develop a four piece series of a lost boy who finds a mysterious void-like portal inside a tunnel that sucks him into an enchanted world. During this discovery and time spent in the portal the boy transforms into an enchanted being himself and encounters other enchanted characters, like a caterpillar which is asking him the big question: “Who are you?” 

This question is posed to the audience, I want to give you the opportunity to observe the transformation of the two worlds merging and relate to the transformation that takes place within yourself. Take a second to observe how far you’ve come in life and ask yourself the same question. The boy transforming into an enchanted being indicates that the world you inhabit inside yourself can also merge with the reality we all experience as a collective, and you too, have the power to be whatever you set your intentions on. 

I started the process of these designs with drawings and later traced them on Adobe Illustrator using the pen tool. The paint pouring you see in the background was created on an A4 sized canvas using acrylic fluorescent paint and pouring medium. I took photos of the canvas once the painting was complete and combined the photos together on Adobe Photoshop to achieve a flowing fluorescent sky. After I achieved this I then created the grass using watercolour textures with the paintbrush tool, once I created the sky and the grass I transferred my photoshop document back into Adobe Illustrator and made the fluorescent sky and grass a background for my designs I originally traced. My final stages of the design process were whiting out the background from the traced designs using the eraser tool and after that I then cut and separated each section of the artwork into 4 pieces and placed them into Indesign where I used the measurements of a skateboard deck and made a template of the same size and shape to be sent off to Talbot Press for printing and ready to stick on my boards.