Tiny Dancer: A Modest Little Love Letter to Second Life Designer and Artist Anya Ohmai

Janine "Iris Ophelia" Hawkins' ongoing review of gaming and virtual world style

There are few Second Life artists as capable of capturing sweetness, softness, and fragility as Anya Ohmai. The scope of her virtual photography and artwork extends well beyond those themes of course, but when she sets off down that lace and crinoline path the work she produces is incomparable. "Ballerina Solitude" is a flawless example of this: her composition, her color palette, her staging, her lighting, every aspect coming together into an image that forces a wistful sigh out of my lungs whenever I look at it.

Anya's work often comes in short bursts, spread out with weeks or even months between them. As much as I dislike that, it just makes each picture so much sweeter, so much more worth savouring.

See more from Anya Ohmai on Flickr.

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Iris Ophelia (@bleatingheart, Janine Hawkins IRL) has been featured in the New York Times, and has spoken about SL-based design at the Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan and with pop culture/fashion maven Johanna Blakley.</