Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting
Tori Slayer is an exciting discovery whom I found following people’s Flickr favorites and she’s wonderful. I just love her art. This is such a haunting picture. There is this couple embracing. It is deceptively simple, but her bodysuit of lace changes as you go upward and covers her face completely. Is it metaphorical? Perhaps even more powerful is the light to their right. It looks almost ghostlike with arms and a shadow going down the back. It’s curved like someone in mourning and it’s a shadow alone. A ghost shadow? I don’t know. I just know it matters.
A picture that makes me stop and try to decipher its meaning is a picture that I fall in love with. I know I could be totally off base, but we all see what we see. Of course, whether the intention of the artist or the interpretation of the viewer is the most important is a long-running philosophical debate.
For more compelling images, click here:
“Akado” is another striking picture, an inexplicable one. We don’t know why they are unclothed. Their glasses show us that there is a bright light that colors their skin and is reflected brightly off their sunglasses. They might just be a bunch of women in a spa getting some special light treatment, but it feels like they are in a post-apocalyptic shelter, waiting for the siren to stop blaring.
“Fallout 76” is a more “accessible” picture. She took pictures at a fairground that has fallen into disrepair, rusting and breaking down bit by bit. Here is a picture of a horse from the merry-go-round, but it has lost its head which makes it more malleable to your imagination. Yes, it is a horse from a merry-go-round but it also reminds me of the running rabbit statue.
Tori Slayer’s art excites me. Her photostream draws me in. Even better, she curated galleries of work that makes her say Wow! I can’t wait to explore.
All images copyright Tori Slayer
See all of Cajsa's Choices here. Follow Cajsa on Flickr, on Twitter, on her blog, and on her Ko-Fi.
Want to recommend amazing SL artists for future posts? Posts links to their image feeds in comments here. (Self-promotion welcome!)
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