Papalexis Liana

Alice in Porcelain Land 
 
 
This project was my final degree work for my master, on lighting-multimedia, 2014. It is inspired by Lewis Carroll's story "Alice in Wonderland". 
 
It suggests the flight into the world of dreams and imagination, as a way of escape from the harshness of reality. Breaking the bonds of the real, I am building a world of a brain getaway. Porcelain Land remains a mental journey, one that maybe fulfilled only through fantasy. The viewer penetrates into unknown places, at times dark and dangerous, and at others strange and beautiful.  It defines an entry way into the unconscious, where nature, according to Kant, is the "archetype of the beautiful and the noble". 
 
On Bondi beach, this beauty is reflected through light, through the sky and the sea blue, as they mix all together with the misty translucency of porcelain, the smooth, pear- shaped forms which follow one another under our gaze, creating voids and shadows. 
Alice, will finally be a sculpture made by metal armature covered by mosses, so it can be related and have a direct dialogue to nature. 
 
The soft mat texture of porcelain and its transparency is due to the high temperature (1280 oC), while the very thin inner wall that intensifies this transparency, is attributed to the construction with the use of molds. 
 
 
Materials: Porcelain, led lights.