Spectacular Spooky Seasons Second Life Images Evoke Hieronymus Bosch

Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting

Alex Amore is in the Halloween Spirit and I am loving the variety of his concepts. I love the scarlet to black color story. He named the picture “Red Star Dance” I love the dramatic pose and the drama of the red lights leaning to the left and the avatar leaning to the right. 

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“Night Terrors” strikes me as something created by Hieronymus Bosch. Now this is scary, pure horror with no camp to make it spooky rather than terrifying. I had to check it out myself and used the teleport link to visit A Timeless Halloween. Quite the trip. I stepped in a bear trap and had a luminous skeleton jump on my back for a piggy back ride. I also took the train ride hoping to avoid more bear traps. You can check it out at this teleport link. [To teleport, click here.]

“Out of the Mist” is another picture from A Timeless Halloween and it’s really stunning, combining the horror of the living dead with such delicacy. The mist creates more than just a feeling of unease, but also a thread of fragile delicacy. It’s an extraordinary gathering of disparate and contrasting impulse, horror with grace, fear and delicacy. It’s just wonderful. 

Check out Alex Amore’s photostream for more Halloween pictures and his more regular slice-of-life wanderings in Second Life. He is an explorer so there are lots of landscapes to check out, too. 

All images copyright Alex Amore 

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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 seventeen 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.

Comments

[Alex Amore]

Wow, this was a delightful surprise! Thank you for the story and kind words. <3 Alex Amore.