Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting
Suki Blossom’s “New Horizons” made me think of those Facebook memes about kids nowadays that laments the many things today’s youth won’t be able to enjoy because parents monitor their children more closely and seldom allow unsupervised play. I grew up in the era of “It’s 10 p.m. Do you know where your children are?” and was allowed to ride my bike all over town, to any of three swimming lakes within twenty miles, and hang with my friends wherever. The railroad tracks were a favorite place. Flattening pennies by laying them on the tracks so the train ran over them was great entertainment. So was walking on the rails as Suki is here. We had so much fun and I feel bad for the kids who are denied the chance to do risky and silly things.
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“Meet me at the bottom of the ocean” is another somewhat risky adventure. It’s getting dark and it’s delicious to swim in the dark, but it can also be disconcerting when there is no visible land. I can only hope the shore is visible behind her. When you swim in the dark and the moonlight shines on the water, it feels like if you can just swim ten feet forward, you could touch the moonlight. Sadly, you can never swim or paddle fast enough to catch the moonlight, but you can spend hours thinking you will.
“Come out and play, it’s fun in the dark” captures the entire zeitgeist of a free-range childhood. Of course, most of us can’t play with magic, levitate books, or make a whirlwind of pages, but we still can go out and play. In the dark.
All images copyright Suki Blossom
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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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