AnnMarie Tornabene was born in 1969 and grew up in the suburbs of Long Island, New York. It was the closest in proximity to a rural landscape without residing in the north part of the state. She loved that she was a car-ride away from farmlands, beautiful parks, forests, and nature preserves; many areas that were still left undeveloped leaving hints of past history.

​In 2006, though, AnnMarie moved closer to Manhattan, to the harsh realities of urban living. In Queens, NY, not far from “the big apple”, she saw a magnification of a complex, fast-paced, aggressive nature our society has become. Humanity, that was often hidden by technology and the vastness of a city, made it difficult for her to form interpersonal relationships and she found myself longing for an idyllic world – one where peace, love, and harmony resided.

​The move, combined with other profound changes occurred in her life including a fear of losing her identity; self-doubt was surrounding her every move and she started making poor decisions. Fairly rapidly, AnnMarie felt like she was falling into a deep hole. With some therapy, she started a quest to find connections and clues to how she arrived to the place that she was at. It was at that moment that everything felt surreal and the story “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”, deemed appropriate for what was happening and so the two series “Rabbitholes and Revelations”as well as “Not Wonderland” were created.