Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting
Tupper Moran wrote in the description for “The Puppy Shower” that she likes Norman Rockwell and Thomas Kinkade’s artwork and aspires to offer an homage to their work with her own. She seems to trend more toward Rockwell by featuring several people in the midst of living life, the way he did. In “The Puppy Shower” they are all laughing because the puppy just shook water off to dry while giving the woman a shower. It’s a fun picture and does have that feeling of Americana that was central to Rockwell and Kinkade’s work.
“The Trick or Treat Gang Cometh, Again” is another slice-of-life Americana, the annual candypalooza that occurs when families knock on neighbors’ doors and are rewarded with candy.
The title made me look for an earlier Trick or Treat Gang picture and from 2022, I found this delight:
I mean, could you choose just one?
“Peterson’s Christmas Tree” perfectly captures the spirit of Americana. There is a persistent longing for the life and times of the past. It’s kind of like how every generation has a “kids nowadays” complaint. We all think the way it was done during our parents’ or grandparents’ heyday was the best. There is a longing for what seemed an easier, happier time, at least for some.
Tupper Moran seems like she must be a bundle of energy. I say that even though, as with most of the people I feature, I have never met her. But just look at her photostream. It’s full of stories, many of which she narrates in the picture descriptions. She tells stories. She gathers a crowd of friends who are willing to pose for her pictures. She’s enjoying Second Life and it shows.
All images copyright Tupper Moran
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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.
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