On Sunday morning, February 22, Linden Labs decided to restart the mainland region where my gallery and home is located. The textures are still loading and its been 2 full days with no improvement. Consequently, the Grand Opening of my newly built gallery had to be cancelled.
In the meantime, I find myself involved in three separate exhibits this month. I started setting up the show at Aho Gallery on NMC last night and it looks good. Basically, I am showing the sculptures and accompanying pictures of 7 different series plus 5 additional single pieces at lower cost.
The show at Tricia Aferdita's gallery will feature several male/female duets with the main poster from a piece called "Attraction" and the Limited Edition set called "I Love You" including an additional piece as a trio display. "Flowerful", "Lexicon", and "Morning" are all good series for the theme that originally was meant for the month of February.
At Gulara Gallery I am going out on a limb a bit and including several collaborative pieces from when Sachi and I were together. This time her name will appear in the description and she will share in any sales. Her photographs of my prim groupings (sculptures) were awesome and it would be a shame to keep them hidden from view for too long. It should make the show even more interesting.
Here I am in my gallery with one of the two sculptures I created last month. Its called Assuage and is the one I used to create the image shown in a previous post. I made another one on Saturday for a series I call Mystic.
Then it came to me...something that has been bothering me since last week. Some girl called Comet asked me why I don't make my sculptures move and do things like everyone else. Then I read in a forum where one person said they admire SL artists who are geeks..."complete artists", she said. Well, it doesn't take a geek to add scripts and it doesn't take scripts to make sculptures in Second Life that are moving (like move your soul, for instance) ..but...it made me think of further possibilities. I don't live in a vacuum...and like a good challenge every so often.
Let me first say that I've used scripts in my sculptures before but the best photographs are taken when the prims are motionless. Why make it more difficult to capture the image? So for sculptures I use for taking photographs, it isn't necessary to add scripts and since I am a purist, and the process is such an important part of the artwork, they will only have a rotating script for presentation purposes.
I'm making sculptures now...not for creating images but to complete my experience as a Second Life artist. I'm adding scripts when it doesn't take away from the overall experience...where is adds something provocative. My first scripted sculpture is full size and limited in availability. One will be on permanent display on the ceiling of anandra Contemporary Arts Forum and the other will be available at an auction coming up after Valentine's Day. When that event occurs I will post a picture on this site.
