Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting
ℕadej Dae creates extraordinary images focusing on landscapes and avatar portraits. Her landscapes are close and intimate, a single tree, a few flowers or grasses, often in silhouette or in striking colors. “Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year” is a striking picture and perfectly captures the quote with all the leaves on one side turned to their autumn colors and then the bare branches of winter. The leaves are blowing all about swirling in the wind and fog.
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“Ici, coule une rivière” is breathtakingly beautiful. That violently green sky lowering over the desaturated rocks, grass, and boat while the river and the lily have a different, cooler green. This divides the picture, not just into three parts of sky, land, and water, but into three colors (or lack of color) which create different emotional landscapes. It’s gorgeous.
“Réinventer les couleurs” reinvents the sky in an egg-yolk yellow, the transient color of sunrise and sunset. The land is in silhouette, the land and brush are in stark relief against the fog and sea. It’s such a striking picture and I love that flash or red in the foreground. Is it a light leak, a campfire.
In her pictures, ℕadej Dae uses light, color, and shadow to define the contours of the landscape. In her portraits, she does something very similar, hiding and revealing parts of the face or body. She blurs and sharpens the picture to direct our eyes. It’s all deeply deliberate and well-imagined. I would call it magical, except that would discount her skill. .
All images copyright ℕadej Dae
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Cajsa’s Choices is devoted to unique, artistic, and innovative virtual world-based images and screenshots that showcase the medium as an art form and Second Life as a creative platform. (Generally not images that fit on this Bingo card.)
Cajsa Lilliehook is a sixteen year resident of Second Life, where she owned a photo studio, spent several years as a DJ at The Velvet, and for her first SL job, cleaned up prim trash. She co-founded and runs the It’s Only Fashion blog with her best friend Gidge Uriza. She also has a book review blog, Tonstant Weader Reviews and a cooking blog, Single Serving Recipes. She spends a lot of time researching and reporting on Republican sexual predators. In her first life, she is a retired grassroots leader who has worked for economic and social justice issues most of her life. She is also the minion of a cat named Nora.
Thank you very much, the articles are always so warm and you understand so well the shapes and the colors and the dreams behind the captures, I am very touched, really I am very happy I love your choice of captures :) <3
Posted by: Nadej | Tuesday, March 05, 2024 at 04:45 PM