Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting
Some people concentrate on shooting raw, unprocessed screencaptures in Second Life. There are groups that feature unprocessed photos, though I think in some of those groups, people misunderstand the meaning of “raw.” There is no such problem with SL Unedited where I discover Thierry Tillier’s lovely “Landscape.” For someone from farm country, that sky is a harbinger of disaster. With the bare trees it must be late fall so the fields should be ready to harvest and at the most vulnerable to hail storms. I am crossing my fingers the hail passes by.
The next picture is literally named SL art, if you can’t resist that, click here:
“SL Art” intrigues me. It’s nearly four years old but still seems current. What does he mean? That there is no SL art? Is he saying it’s blank frames? Or is this a nod to the infinite possibilities for creation in SL? I have no idea, but I like it.
“XV” is striking in its use of light. There is the light illuminating the flowers and the light illuminating the buildings. Yellow and blurred up close, blue and sharply defined in the back. Natural in the front, industrial in the back. Leaning to the right in the front and to the left in the back. So many contrasts with such a simple picture.
Tillier Thierry’s photostream is fascinating. He is a working art photographer in real life with a large body of work. Check out his website for his extensive work outside of Second Life. He does a lot of collage work, mixing photographs with pictures torn from magazines, newspapers, and vintage photos. I can imagine him doing the same with photos from RL and SL in some new assemblage of realities. That would be fun, wouldn’t it?
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