Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting
Indie’s “Gold Dust Woman” is an excellent example of “less-is-more.” Imagine if this was a complete headshot. It would still be lovely but it would be less likely to arrest your attention and compel you to look more closely. By showing less, Indie forces us to complete the face in our imagination. We don’t just look at the picture; we interact with it. There is a back and forth that engages us.
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“My love, down, deep into your bones” is another less-is-more picture. This is a tender, intimate picture, but it is also erotic. It relies on our imagination, not explicit exposure, to make it erotic. Her lingerie is practical and has about a thousand times the pixels of the average Second Life underwear, but that makes it a more tangible thing to remove. Then there is his hand, not doing anything aggressively sexual, not groping, but just lightly skimming between her shoulder blades. We all know how a light stroke on the skin can be so much more evocative than a more solid, substantial grasp. In this picture, we know what’s happening even though we don’t see it. We can imagine what’s next.
“Me walking away from things that don’t make me feel good” is a picture of her entire body plus the landscape, but yet it also suggests more than it shows. There she is in this lovely field with all those placid sheep, a bucolic scene if there ever was one, and she has a camera and is not even taking a picture. She’s walking away, so we don’t see her face, but we can infer that she is removing herself by the length of her stride. She’s not ambling along, her pace is fast and deliberate. I think it’s safe to say that on the other side of the lens is someone who didn’t make her feel good.
Indie’s photostream is short, only 38 pictures, but it’s a delightful stream. Her pictures project emotion and show her living her Second Life with confidence and joy.
All images copyright Indie
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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.
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