10 feet tall

When She’s 10 Feet Tall explores the shifting relationship between childhood and adulthood through a surreal reinterpretation of Alice in Wonderland. The composition plays with scale and perspective—Alice rests to the side in a smaller, reflective presence, while the towering queen figure represents the exaggerated authority and certainty we often project onto adulthood.

Throughout the piece, symbolic characters move between imagination and memory. The Mad Hatter introduces the playful unpredictability of perception, while the rabbit appears as a stuffed companion, transforming the traditional symbol of time into something carried and personal—like the objects we hold onto for comfort as children. As we grow older, time becomes something we try to control rather than something we simply carry.

The narrative reflects a cyclical truth: when we are young, we look upward, reaching toward adulthood; when we are older, we look back downward, longing for the openness and wonder of childhood. Rather than a linear journey, the work suggests that identity expands by moving between both states.

2023

Oil paint on wood panel

69 × 48 inches

Original artwork available

When you try to make sense of where you are going and why

You’re a child with demanding responsibilities

Maybe to change your luck with looking up to the being before you?

But they are only bigger versions of yourself

You can not change the beauty of this undetermined life

Expand, Create, Live.