My Jabberwocky!

So I played a bit coy with my Jabberwocky, which I made for an informal little competition over at the secret Dark Art Society Cooperative group (Which I'd recommend joining for any artist doing dark stuff. You can join by supporting the Dark Art Society patreon with as little as 1$. Anyhow...). The reason is simply that the contests, while informal, are also anonymous, so that no one can vote for their favorite name or friend. It's a cool little contest, no prize or nothing, but it keeps me on my toes. My Jabberwocky didn't win, but it was my second second place, so yay! 
I want to say a few things about this piece. Even though I made it "for" a competition, I sort of succumbed to an obsession, knowing that it would not really make sense for an online competition. An intricate circular comic-adaption of a poem, with the poem written in mirrored text, doesn't really make a good thumbnail, or a good representation at all on a screen. 
But let's rewind a bit. "Jabberwocky" isn't just a nonsense poem, it's a fictitious nonsense poem. Written by Lewis Carroll, included in his "Through the Looking Glass", where Alice finds it in an incomprehensible form. Finally, she realises the text is mirrored, and when she reads it in a mirror it's... still not comprehensible. The words are simply, non sensical. Humpty Dumpty explains the first few verses. And that's basically what we know about it. Luckily, with the explanation of the first few verses, the rest is pretty easy to get. And as I read through the poem, which is cyclical, ending in the same verse as it begins, I start to realise that this isn't a nonsense poem, it's a classical epic poem. It's a pretty perfect condensation of The Hero's Journey. 
So that became the obsession. Realising the poem in it's true epic form, while still honouring it's nonsense nature. The story becomes a journey into the unknown, a coming of age tale, and an encounter with death and a glorious return. 
As this obsession fills me, I start reading Jordan Petersons Maps of Meaning, which, however you feel about his loopy politics, is basically a 100% about The Hero's Journey, as described by Joseph Campbell, and the collective unconscious and archetypes of C.G. Jung. So as I'm drawing my head starts seeing all these things falling into place. And I'm jumping back into the books, reading Campbell, Jung, and Neumann again, and finally getting some context to a few of the major themes that have been looming over my art the last few years. 
In the end, with Jabberwocky starting at brillig, which means around four o clock in the day, and ending at brillig, and my incorporation of the hinting at a sundial in the poem, the final result actually looks pretty accurate to a standard schematic representation of The Hero's Journey. 
So all in all, a pretty strange and wonderfully magical experience, and a nice piece of art. 
 I'm going to make a print of it pretty soon, so hopefully that will turn out good. Keep you updated.
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