This piece by brandee was inspired by the White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland, one of her favorite stories. She has always loved the concept of falling down the rabbit hole and ending up in a fantastical world. All the characters live by abstract rules, but rules nonetheless. And the White Rabbit seems cursed to always be a step behind.

In this painting, brandee tried to capture that curse. The background twists and swirls with warped clocks, mushrooms, and clouds. Tears fall from the rabbit’s distressed eyes. A third eye wide open, the iris of which also contains a clock face.

All the clocks, save for the third eye clock, have too many hands. This is to illustrate how unwinnable it is to chase time. In a world where someone is always late, you never have a moment to sit and appreciate. Even the third eye is distorted by the illusion of time, showing how narrow the rabbit’s focus is. The mushrooms float by, nearly fading into the background, the last reamnent of the physical world still accessible.