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I focused on showing the whimsical world of the story by distorting some typography and the chess board back ground, but tried to maintain order at the same time by using bold lines and shapes. The pawn and the queen piece are the same size, symbolizing how Alice had the potential to become the queen through her journey and actually becoming one. I used that negative space of the two pieces as an outer frame of the mirror that is showing the "real world", but then the cat is upside down. So there is still a confusion of which one is real and which one is not, as the last part of the book implies how life might be all about just a dream. - Sumie Nagatani
