Bee Alice

$9999

She didn't fall down the rabbit hole. She built it, furnished it, and hung a 'Drink Me' bottle by the door as a welcome sign. Kat Tatz's enchantress isn't lost in Wonderland — she *is* Wonderland, wearing its iconography like a second skin: the Cheshire Cat's stripes spiral into her hair and face, the mushrooms bloom beneath her like a throne she never had to ask for, and the bees — industrious, a little chaotic, absolutely unafraid — buzz around her in tribute. There's honey dripping from the mushroom cap in slow, golden ribbons, and somewhere behind her, luminous blue butterflies drift through the dark like half-remembered thoughts. This is what transformation looks like when it's finished with apologizing. The fishbowl cat watches with wide blue eyes. The wine bottle waits. The crescent moon gleams faintly in the upper dark. Tatz has always said she lets her paintings tell her what they want to become — and this one became something sovereign: a figure who has moved through every version of herself and arrived, finally, exactly where she was always headed. The gilded baroque frame doesn't contain her — it crowns her. For anyone who has ever felt caught mid-becoming, this painting is a mirror. Not the kind that shows you what you are, but the kind that shows you what's waiting on the other side of the glass.

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