Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting
x a n a x b l a c k o u t is a queen of the erotic with an avatar who is kissing cousins with Betty Page and an eye for exposure of the not-quite-over-the-edge kind. This picture attracted me with its use of black and white to bring it down to form which is where all the shapes and angles are highlighted. It is a microblog post about chairs - and yet, somehow, the chairs have a whole new context.
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She also does some stunning digital paintings based on SL photos. This one is fully into some roleplay. I love how successfully she made it look aged by time, like a painting or one of those black and white photos from the past when they would paint in the colors.
She likes to show the world in soft focus. It’s a forgiving way to see the world and she uses it to push boundaries. I like this one in part because it is not pushing boundaries, but because it is, again, a striking composition of form with the unfocused details no longer a distraction. The cactus is a third from the left and the avatar is more sharply delineated. The colors and forms are striking even before the come together into recognizable elements.
x a n a x b l a c k o u t’s photostream is not for everyone. It is openly erotic, though only the aesthetic kind of erotica. She has intriguing videos that seem like meditations on an idea that introduced me to new music that I like. What I love about her work is she is an experimenter. She’s trying new techniques and new ideas, though always on her central fascination, the avatar and the aesthetics of eroticism.
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