Statement of intent

Statement Of Intent
There are many adult themes and speculations about this story and the author himself, about his sexuality, drug references and possible drug induced writing- this to me is a real contradiction to the innocence of the fact that this is a children's story book and I love the idea that there's a darker underlying purpose or meaning to it. This has given me the idea to re-create certain characters when making my artwork but more modernised, dark and adult themed. This way I'm reinventing the meaning of the story and have many good idea's. I definitely plan on experimenting with materials as usual, but more playful and colourful materials as opposed to the last project to portray the imaginative, natural and creative imagery seen in the book and the films. This will be very difficult as there have been many adaptions of the characters and storyline so it will be difficult to come up with a full project of original imaginitive material but I've got a rough idea of what I could do although I'll probably change my mind alot.
I really like the idea of making backgrounds in the style of salvador dali to mimick the theme of drug use and hallucinogenics and he has given me some really good ideas, I love the colours and ambitious, free and improvised brush strokes. Also, I did a piece of work in my vision project that I really enjoyed making and absolutely love the look of that I think would be perfect to style the queen of hearts on, I liked painting and drawing ontop of the photographs and building materials around them such as lino and dry point prints whilst experimenting with materials and ink colour and that is something I would like to continue with; so I could definitely use this piece of work as a reference.
It's really important to me to ensure all my work is as original as possible so I'm definitely going to do a lot of research and plan out each and every piece I do and make sure it's not similar to any one elses pieces whilst gathering inspiration from other artists. Fortunately, I'm a massive Alice in wonderland fan and am familiar with the adaptations of the films and characters, quotes and imagery and this is a subject I can really explore and get involved with on a deep level as it's always been one of my favourite stories and it's something I could really get passionate about.
Furthermore, I really want to do a small photography section. I'm not sure of all the details or exactly of what I want to photograph but I have an idea that involves the mad hatter's tea party. I definitely want to experiment with gel screens in the background and lighting in the studio, but I'm not sure of all the details yet and shall have to do some further research for inspiration.
I could also take photographs of my college classmates and work on them on photoshop maybe, I'm not good with computers but it's a good idea that I could explore with some help.
As I go along I'm going to write down or sketch my ideas onto scraps of paper and reference them in my work almost like a diary throughout my book to show what my original ideas and intentions where so that I can see how much my ideas have changed which I think is a really good idea to show my progression. This will also be helpful during the marking process so that others may fathom how my work has progressed throughout time and understand why and what changes have been made.
I really want this to be my biggest project yet and want to try and use as many techniques and media as possible and testing out a lot of different pathways.