Wonderland

Additional texteDescription: Strindberg has described what happened when he painted this painting. He did this in his essay The new art direction! or by chance in artistic creation. He tells how he first wanted to paint "a shaded forest interior, where you can see the sea at sunset." After having painted a while he notices that he can not see any sea, but rather "an infinite perspective of pink and bluish light, where the subtle beings hover around like fairies with a trailer of the clouds". He notes that the forest has become a cave. The foreground looks like rocks covered with lichen.