Friday, 28 September 2012

Dreamchild



Images from the series Dreamchild

Fig. 1: Olympia as Lewis Carroll's Beatrice Hatch before White Cliffs 2003 - subject to much controversy

Fig. 2: Olympia as Lewis Caroll's Irene McDonald (it won't come smooth) 2002

Fig. 3: Olympia as Lewis Carroll's Xie Kitchin (sleeping on chais) 2003

Fig. 4: Olympia as Lewis Carroll's Xie Kitchin as a Chinaman on tea boxes (on duty) 2003

Images taken by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) of Alexandra Xie Kitchin in the late 1800's

Fig. 5: Xie Kitchin as a Chinaman - 1873

Fig. 6: Xie Kitchin with a Japanese umbrella - 1873

Fig. 7: Xie Kitchin as a tea merchant - 1873


Fig. 1, 2, 3 & 4 from the series Dreamchild, Polixeni Papapetrou's website, viewed September 25, 2012, http://www.polixenipapapetrou.net/works.php?cat=Dreamchild_2003

Fig. 5, 6 & 7 (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson images) from Art.com, viewed September 25, 2012, http://www.art.com/gallery/id--a82953/charles-lutwidge-dodgson-posters.htm?ui=4383641D2EF34DBE8AA95F85FD2AE9A6

Z. Stanhope 2003, "Serious Play" 2003, viewed September 25, 2012, http://www.polixenipapapetrou.net/text.php?txt=ZS_SeriousPlay&cat=On_Dreamchild

1 comment:

  1. I find these images highly inappropriate. Especially the first one. Are you sick??! I’m disgusted.

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