Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting
I know I featured Nekonuko Nakamori just a little over a year ago in this post but there are just so many great pictures. When I saw Wandering World 1220, though, I just had to share it. Perhaps it is because Fukushima is in the news again with the announcement that they will begin releasing the water in the cooling tanks into the ocean. Nekonuko’s picture with the orange and yellow sky and the twin nuclear power plant chimneys has that foreboding feeling that captured my own emotion reading the news about the Fukushima water. Her avatar is there in the picture, so small and fragile. This also captures that feeling of there being no good solutions, no safety.
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Nekonuko usually shoots herself from a distance, from the side or the back, looking into the scene that is the focus of her pictures. This is a relative rare look at herself. She had just finished watching Sense8 and loved it. From the series, she took this advice, “No matter how anomalous, unstable, chaotic, or strange life may be, be yourself, connect with people, and believe in each other.” She hopes to carry that admonition to love one another for the rest of her life.
I chose this picture from Skrunda because it echoed some of the decrepit abandonment of the first picture of the nuclear chimneys, but it has no foreboding, only melancholy. The abandoned lighthouse and swings awaken a touch of nostalgia for the era of ships sailing without GPS and modern technology to keep them from foundering in shallow water, when people lived isolated lives in lighthouses to keep ships safe. Even the tree is bare. Those days are gone.
I love Nekonuko Nakamori’s photostream. It is full of beautiful pictures. She finds beauty wherever she looks. Even the nuclear chimneys are beautiful in her picture. I love how she has found her mission and sticks to it year after year, showing us the beauty in the cities, wastelands, and abandoned places of Second Life as well as in the conventionally beautiful valleys, forests, and waterways. I love that she provides a SLURL so you, too, can see what she saw, though of course, what we see may be very different.
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