The process of creating this zine reminds me of Alice's journey after falling into the rabbit hole -- entering Wonderland...a curiously strange and entrancing place.
This project started as a test of some new markers. The test was done by drawing a flowery image on an 8.5"x11" sheet of copy paper in a horizontal orientation.
I decided to make a zine out of the image. As 'luck' would have it, when the paper was folded as a zine, half the image was right-side up and the other half was upside down. It wasn't going to work that way. So, I asked myself -- what am I going to do to fix the problem, because without a fix it is non-sensical?
I started to think of how to work with the problem rather than tossing the zine-in-progress out, cutting it up, or just giving up and being defeated by it. What would Alice do, I wondered?
A 2020 article in Medium titled 'Alice in Wonderland: The Sense Behind the Nonsense' says that gaining power in Wonderland involved letting go of sense that Alice was not willing to do. But she did accept the discrepancy.
Back to my question, and the answer: Accept the apparent problem as an opportunity and embrace the non-sense! So I created a non-sensical verse that includes three words from the right-side up pages and added the rest with the help of a label-maker:
When the world is topsy-turvy...
...grass rains upon the sky.
Time to...play out loud...and wildly
and surf the green to fly.
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