One of the very best things about SL is the abundance of creativity and talent. I was wandering through some of the floors in Crossworlds the other day as I often do and just to amuse myself I decided to pick my top ten favourite pieces. It is actually almost impossitble to pick only ten and even more so to pick just on piece as with some aertists like Bryn Oh and Feathers Boa, it is all so engaging, even if the subject matter is contraversial or challenging, that it is almost impossible to pick only one work.
Nonethless I decided to give it a go and here, in alphabetical order, are my ten favourite babies for January 2011.
I can barely speak the name Bryn Oh without being full of awe. I met her once briefly and she showed me around the set of Condos in Heaven whilst she was still working on it. I am blown away by her vision and her otherworldness. I have chosen Sea and Sky because it speaks to me as a symbol of our universal attatchement to the physical. When I get a full sim I will be buying one of her larger pieces.
This installation, Far Nebula, by Glyph Graves, is one of a series of 3D particle constructions that just blows me away. We have sited this above our skybox and often sit watching the extremely long cycle of animation effortlessly morph against the background of a starlight night sky.
Forever Love, Irina Negulescu, speaks for itself, Toby bought me this for Christmas because he knew how much I loved it.
Iggy, obviously an iguana, has a vibrant colour spectrum and shows Sinclair Stratton's skill with smoothly blending the palette. I love the gekkos that frequent the terraces in mediterranean locations and perhaps this is why this particular canvas speaks so eloquently to me.
Illusive Dreamer Feathers Boa.
I count myself lucky to have met Feathers a few times and to be in touch with her fairly regularly.
Each of her works is a footstep on her personnel journey and she invites the passive voyeur to vicariously taste the energies littered along its path.
Like most of her works this interacts with the observer, a mark of true SL art to my thinking.
L'Etranger, Zeppie Innis is one of two works I ostensibly bought for Toby but never actually gave them to him. Sometimes you just cant actually give a piece of art work away. This conjures up Robert Heinlen's novel, 'Stranger in a Strange Land' for me, please dont ask me why.
I love this work named Peacock by Saiwun Yoshikawa, it interacts with you as you walk closer. Try it out on the 7th floor.
Fabi gave this fabulous picture to Toby as a birthday gift, it is 'Playing into the Night, by Littleone Aries. We were at her opening recently and that is where I got the idea to share my top ten from Crossworlds. There is a full write up in an earlier post.
Between us, Toby and I have five of these whirling dervishes created by Typote Beck. this is my particular favourite. It is called, Panneau Fish Nuage 16. If you touch them they spin and if you move close they react; SL art that fits in so well with a range of environments.
Urchin by Sabine Stonebender is one of several of her very clever statement pieces and it was really hard to pick just one. Each time you touch it another spike of the urchin appears. Such a clever play on words and images.
Happy New Year
Send me the titles of your Crossworlds top 10 with comments and I will publish them.
Dearest
The background picture? Oh thats Toby and i dancing in Over the Rainbow (Crossworlds)
