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Katy Steen | “The Tea Was Laced With LSD”

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Alice in wonderlands Mad Tea Party, the march hair is pouring tea between his big floppy ears and its overflowing out of his tiny teacup, onto the saucer of the much larger orange teacup that he's sitting " while the Mad Hatter is sticking his tong out in a tongue and cheek kind of way, while poring his tea down the neck of his green jacket, out his right sleeve and into the giant blue teacup he's sitting in and it's splashing up over the sides of the tea cups. while Alice is looking teary eyed and she's tormenting the Cheshire Cat by dumbing her magically levitating tea all over his pink and purple striped tail.

Katy Steen, "The Tea Was Laced With LSD," 2020, acrylic paint, colored pencil, and watercolor brush pens; hand-cut stencils for each color layer, 17" x 11"

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I hate Speedball ink. I could never get the colors I wanted, so instead I used acrylic paint which opened a whole door of opportunity for me with this project. I made this Alice in Wonderland themed print for my grandmother's 73rd birthday. She loves the Mad Tea Party ride in Fantasyland. We always joke that the whole movie "Alice" is actually high on an LSD trip. People who are old enough to have done LSD will tell you being on it is like the world around you suddenly becomes brighter and just a little bit crazier and well funnier, so of course I had to reflect that level of absurdity in the colors of this piece.

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