El Conejo Blanco (The White Rabbit)

Written by Cristina Santa Cruz

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El Conejo Blanco (The White Rabbit)

Jorman

Oil on canvas

160 x 120 cm (approximately 63 × 47.2 in)

2023

Eternas Collection

Category: Portrait · Imagination · Literature

Sometimes, the path is not opened by a door, but by a rabbit running without ever looking back.

She is not falling—she is floating in a dimension of her own. The background—vibrant, intense, nearly impossible—is not a backdrop; it is the echo of a world where clocks stop, flowers speak, and the illogical becomes law.

This figure is not Alice, and yet she is not another. She is the one who dreamed of becoming her. Or the one who, unknowingly, still carries her within.

The white rabbit held gently in her hands is not merely an animal—it is a guide, a secret, a companion. It is the symbol of forward flight, of the fearless leap, of the beginning of an adventure with no way back.

It is the same rabbit that watched Alice Liddell grow up, the one that led her from childhood to the threshold of wonder.

In this portrait, Jorman loosens the line, frees the brushstroke, allows the image to breathe like a freshly remembered dream. The Chinese egrets soaring through the background pierce everything—sky, water, earth—because in this universe there are no laws of gravity. There is only emotion.

The flowered dress, the red like a heartbeat, the orange like an inner sun, the pink like expanded tenderness: everything is a gesture toward the vital. The rabbit, white as the purity of the unknown, gazes unafraid.

This figure holds wonder. She guards it. She understands it.

And in doing so, she becomes a new Alice. An ageless Alice.

An Alice who, perhaps, is each of us.

Cristina Santa Cruz

Abril 2025

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El Conejo Blanco (The White Rabbit) in context

The White Rabbit is one of the most iconic characters in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), written by Lewis Carroll (pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson). In the story, the White Rabbit sets Alice’s journey into motion, rushing nervously with a pocket watch and exclaiming he is late. He is a symbol of time, of mystery, of the passage between wakefulness and dream.

Carroll wrote the tale inspired by Alice Liddell, a young girl he met in the gardens of Christ Church, Oxford. The literary Alice is a transfiguration of that real child, and she represents the crossing of logic and fantasy, childhood and intelligence, reality and wonder.

In Jorman’s White Rabbit, this female figure is not immersed in an illustrated tale—she rewrites it through gesture, contemplation, colour, and symbolic depth. She is a bridge between eras, between layers of meaning. The rabbit no longer flees—it stays. It remains at her side.

And with it, Alice’s dreamlike world finds a new language:

more intimate,

more pictorial,

more eternal.

Cristina Santa Cruz

April 2025

El Conejo Blanco (The White Rabbit), by Jorman · Oil on canvas · 160 x 120 cm (approximately 63 × 47.2 in) · 2023 · Eternas Collection

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