“Once upon a time there were three little sisters,” the Dormouse began in a great hurry, “and their names were Elsie, Lacie and Tillie; and they lived at the bottom of a well-“
“What did they live on?” said Alice, who always took a great interest in questions of eating and drinking.
“They lived on treacle,” said the Dormouse, after thinking a minute or two.
“They couldn’t have done that, you know,” Alice gently remarked, “they’d have been ill.”
“So they were,” said the Dormouse, “VERY ill.”

- from Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland (1865)

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the treacle well is a series of three individual film loops, each representing one of the “three” who could reside at the bottom of this fictional well. Each loop depicts a female character in a space where they could be viewed as being ill, very ill, and mostly through the way their images play themselves out.

Since treacle (better known today as molasses) is known for being sticky it becomes easy to imagine that these spaces and mindsets are the very “treacle” these characters are struggling against yet can never quite get past. They are, after all, stuck in a literal loop.

What this (hopefully) communicates is that there are certain images and thoughts that can become repetitive and endless. However, everyone has memories, experiences and thoughts they can never quite forget. It makes them infinite.

The loops are as follows:

"alex" takes its basis from Gaspar Noé’s 2002 film "Irréversible" in which a woman unknowingly walks to her destruction in an underpass. What is depicted here is her final, endless descent down a staircase to this event. She remains suspended in this action as if she is permanently trapped in her last innocent (and almost banal) moments before going underground.

"elevened" is more of a personal confession box featuring the artist and her sisters. In the midst of a disruptive and feverish dream the protagonist (in actuality three protagonists) sleepwalk and attempt to forget someone unforgettable, sending off messages to him that go nowhere. Illuminated by nothing more than a strobe light and including other Alice-esque symbols, the actions repeat themselves obsessively as if the girl(s) are following themselves into their own surreal rabbit hole.

"alice" depicts the heroine of the Alice books herself, continuously re-enacting a famous illustration by John Tenniel in Wonderland’s Chapter XII (“Alice’s Evidence”). In a state of arrested development and- in some ways- danger, she tenses herself and relaxes in an unchanging, disorienting space where she will never grow but be constantly remembered as a literary character.