Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting
Spek posted this picture “Runner” today. He’s alone on a beach that seems set up for massive crowds with cabins for vacationers. This pictures feels very lonely. I think he may have deliberately created that loneliness by dressing his avatar in dress pants with a belt and a white oxford shirt. He is apart from the scene, not dressed for it and all alone. On one level, it’s capturing alienation. It reminds me of a Robert Frost poem about snow, of all things.
They cannot scare me with their empty spaces
Between stars - on stars where no human race is.
I have it in me so much nearer home
To scare myself with my own desert places.
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“Wish I Was’ is another picture that evokes loneliness. What is he wishing for? If I were to match a poem to this picture, it would be “Home Is So Sad” by Philip Larkin. “Home is so sad. It stays as it was left, Shaped to the comfort of the last to go…”
He chose “I Think It’s Gonna Rain” for his showcase. It’s also his most popular picture. It’s powerful with the dark shadows and the bright whites. The rain is so heavy. Again, he is alone. Again there is a feeling of alienation. He does such a great job of creating a sense of being alone.
Spek has a fascinating photostream. He is very conscientious about provides teleport SLurls. His pictures seem to portray a kind of anomie, someone at odds with the world, alienated and alone. This is not 100% true as he posts pictures of himself in affectionate and loving embraces, half of a couple. It’s just striking how he seems apart frmo the world in his pictures when he is alone.
All images copyright Spek
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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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