Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting
Mogovtle’s art is a wonderful illustration of creative limitation, the idea that setting limits actually expands creativity, or as the artist Phil Hansen said, "We need to first be limited in order to become limitless.”
She limits her color palette to shades of black and white with touches of red, blue, and gold. But that does not mean her pictures are simple. Her pictures are ornate, baroque with their adornments of lace and filigree. So very beautiful. To see her photostream, it’s astonishing how creative and varied her work is within her aesthetic boundaries. This is “Kamilah” (above) featuring a feline who shows up occasionally in her pictures.
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There is such delicacy in “Disintegration.” It’s breathtakingly beautiful despite showing a woman missing an arm and a leg. Many of her pictures show her with a prosthetic leg such as the one in “Grace,” beautifully ornate with graceful carving, lushly painted roses, and an ornate ‘foot.’ I love that she finds certain themes and sticks with them. This picture is from 2019 and is perfectly at home in her current work.
“Dusa” is a good example of how different work can be within the boundaries. This is the darker side of her spectrum. However, she’s not offering us the angelic-demonic/light-dark cliché. “Kamilah” is not angelic and “Dusa” is not demonic. Her expression is neutral, not threatening, not angry. If we infer ill intent, it’s from our color associations, not the avatar herself.
I love Mogovtle’s work. I appreciate that she sometimes makes the effort to create a reason for her avatar to be sideways or on the diagonal. I wish she did that more, but she can’t always be doing backflips or swimming. I understand the desire to have a large picture that can be seen in the window without scrolling down, but scrolling down is far easier than turning the laptop sideways. Nonetheless, her work is beautiful, extraordinary in its discipline and its creativity. And if you love her outfits and want to look like you, too, were conjured up in a dream, she lists her outfit credits.
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