Alien: Birth Temple painting (1976 or 77) by Ron Cobb references 'The Railway Guard looking at Alice' for Lewis Carroll's 'Alice Through The Looking Glass' (1871) by John Tenniel ?

 

 

 

 

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Alien: Ron Cobb's birth temple

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Illustrations for Lewis Carroll's Alice stories by John Tenniel

 

 

 

 

a) Ron Cobb's birth temple.

A human explores a primitive angular tomb like chamber, loosely with a Mayan or Aztec look to it. 

 

 

 

 

 

b)  'Alice Through The Looking Glass' for Lewis Carroll's The Railway Guard looking at Alice' (1871) by John Tenniel

 

 

 

 

 

 

c) Comparable areas side by side

 

 

 

 

 

 

d) The horns and ears of the goat become the horned parts of the triangular area.

 

 

 

 

 

 

e) The triangular newspaper hat becomes the mysterious eye in the triangle 

 

 

f) The newspaper becomes the sloping sides

 

 

 

 

g) His leg becomes the left side of the plinth

 

 

 

 

 

 

h) Alice sitting in the right side of the compartment becomes the right side of the birth temple with the seat becoming the plinth and the right window frame becoming the frieze directly behind the plinth and the wall with the back of the seat becoming the mural

 

 

 

 

i) Alice's legs become the side of the plinth with her skirt becoming the upper slab, her stockings becoming the spore pods and her feet becoming the lower slab