Go Ask Alice is a photographic series that reimagines the visual language of classic fairy tales to examine inherited family trauma and its imprint on identity. Drawing on Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel, and Bluebeard as symbolic frameworks, the work explores how childhood patterns, fears, and unspoken wounds shape adult consciousness and relationships.
In these images, danger is internal rather than external. The figures do not encounter threat, they embody it. Innocence and awareness exist simultaneously, suggesting a moment of psychological awakening. Each chapter captures a threshold, where the subject begins to recognise and negotiate the inherited narratives that have shaped her sense of self.
The series reflects on the quiet persistence of family history and the subtle ways it structures behaviour, desire, and perception. It asks where agency begins once the weight of inherited experience is already present, and whether self determination is truly possible within these invisible frameworks.
Continuing my ongoing exploration of identity and societal conditioning, this body of work shifts from examining adult façades to investigating their origins. It questions whether we consciously choose who we become, or whether the path is laid long before we realise we are walking it.
