http://slurl.com/secondlife/lynto%20land/77/231/22
Did I mention that Toby and I are artists as well as builders and designers...........? Perhaps not?
Well let me mention it now.
We are both fascinated by what I call the Cyber Paradigm (this makes Toby laugh) by this I mean the models of behaviour and the attitudes that people bring with them into virtual spaces. I have written a number of papers on this in the past actually, but I wont bore you with those now.
Second Life provides us with a virtual environment that is only bounded by the limits of the imagination of its inhabitants and I am endlessly fascinated by avatar behaviors and choices.
There are two elements to what fascinates me; the avatars in general and their social behaviours in particular with an emphasis on the ethics and morals they bring to Second life.
Actually all our works have some links to these themes (including our house builds btw).
We work as a team under the name Myrtle & Howton and we have two strands of art work; photography which is mostly studies of avatars and avatar behaviour, and, ..er....installations I suppose one might call them which aim to provide a different type of social comment.
Todays post is about our photography as we have an upcoming exhibition at the well known Crossworlds gallery (I will put in the details as soon as they are finalised) but the theme is 'Twins'.
One aspect of photogaphy we particularly love is capturing something of the alter egos of our friends here.
My friendship with Fabilene Cortes is a very special one, and, because we would often find ourselves buying the same outfits without consultation, the idea of 'Twins' emerged over time and we began to enjoy appearing dressed in a similar way just for the fun of it.
This 'Twins' exhibition charts the development of that theme to date.
As the theme continued to expand we started to explore other aspects of twinship, aspects that initially came from our daily interactions in both work and leisure contexts in SL. Therefoe the first three series of pictures concerns our management role in the Over the Rainbow Jazz Club.
This is the slurl for the Jazz Club if you would like to visit it:-
The majority of this exhibition shows how we explored some hidden elements of that relationship in both terms of how we viewed management as well as how we viewed ourselves in more personal terms......this theme developed considerably as you can see.
Twins: The Management: Lady Sarah
Twins:The Management: Temptation
The final two series of images concentrate on some of the other themes of our personalites both the lighter and darker sides. Further than that I am not prepared to comment.
Twins: Dancing
Twins: Medusa
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