Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting
Bee’s D.U.S.H.A. caught my eye with its brilliant chiaroscuro effect. It has the tone of light and shadow from the old Dutch masters, but really what it reminded me was an old SCTV sendup of Ingmar Bergman. If you watch it, you will understand. It must be the heat making me lightheaded. If you get a kick out Ingmar Bergman satires there is none better than De Dűva.I must confess my friends and I took to saying “H2Oska” for water for far too long.
More of her striking use of lighting that seems to add subtext to her photos.
This “Happy Easter” is genius. The way the two rabbit masks come together to make a forward facing rabbit as well. Again, she uses chiaroscuro to good effect, leaving the elements that seem to come together into two pictures, the one facing forward and the one face-to-face.
“Soul on Fleek” is another duotone, still chiaroscuro, though with pink in something totally new. I imagine this took quite a while in Photoshop to create. I love her idea and the execution. There is something macabre about this with her eyes closed and her mouth open. She could just have jumped in a pool or she could be drowning. I guess it is in our minds what we see.
Bee’s photostream is fascinating. The photos are well done and make the best use of light, shadow, and the avatars. The setting is seldom important though she does have some lovely landscapes. What I like is the ambiguity of her work. There are these gorgeous photos of beautiful women that are so open to interpretation. Do we see the text or the subtext? Are her pictures about avatar beauty or is there this subtly macabre aesthetic? Or is that all in my head? That fascinates me.
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