Suspicious Mountain Revisited

In June I unveiled what I thought might be my last Primagery series called Suspicious Mountain.  Then I was asked to exhibit more of my work at a couple of other galleries.  I had already compiled a retrospective at the Mexico gallery so what was I going to do that was new and interesting?  I went through my inventory of pictures and decided to resurrect the Suspicious Mountain prim sculptures and see what else I could find.  I put them all together, retextured them, spun them upside down and all around and took about 30 shots - not necessarily of suspicious looking mountains.  Out of all those shots, there was one that stood out - and it had that suspicious looking mountain in it.  It will be auctioned off at the Artisan Castle on Friday as a one-of-a-kind.  I think its beautiful.  Here is a reproduction.

Many of my textures were created by Jewel MacMoragh when we were partnered and before she left SL.  The irridescent texture you see in the landscape above makes this piece a winner.

Suspicious Mountain

Ok...kinda blurry. Monroe Snook made this poster for the revealing of my new primagery series, which is possibly my last. All the info I put on my notecard is on the poster.

The show is at the new Warehouse at Studio 33.

This series is different than any I have done before. I made a prim grouping and took photos but didn't like them...so I put on a ripple sculpty..and took some more pictures. They looked like mountain landscapes.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Rockcliffe%20Conservatory/212/82/22

Something Close to Painting like Diebenkorn

Another example of one of the pictures in the primagery series called Spatial that I have developed that sort of demonstrates a similar style or clean lines and muted pastel colors. This particular grouping is more brightly colored than Diebenkorn's work. I will try something closer to his style as an exercise in the near future.

Burning Life Opens the Gates Today

Get ready to RUMBLE! Get a gift and LM to some wonderful installations at the Art Exhibit tent. See the artsy Porta Potties, even one by me. http://burninglife.secondlife.com/whatisBL

Drop by and visit my art parcel, called the Cambrian Explosion. Use the zero gravity sky balls or fly inside yourself. Try walking to the water and see what happens. Inside you will experience some music and visuals that capture my abstract idea of 30 million years of evolution from plankton to vertibrates such as the now extinct trilobites, micromitra, and hurdia victorias. Based on my block prims from the Rebuild series and inspired by the work of the now deceased Vanfarel Kupfer and my admiration of the use of subtle gauze textures by Glyph Graves, I sought to create an exciting and beautiful literal explosion of colors and shapes that springs from a pond in a fossil bed.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Burning%20Life-Double%20Hot/68/88/25

White Velvet Gallery - PiRats through November 1 2009

White Velvet Gallery - PiRats through November 1, 2009 will be showing a selection of Primagery including my most recent experiments with a sculpture called "Rebuild" using a texture I created over a year ago. Here are two examples of the range of images that I was able to extract from the sculpture under different lighting and views.

The show opens today at 1 pm. It features 4 other artists of great interest.

http://pirats.ning.com/xn/detail/3829453:Event:6522?xg_source=activity

Remember: All proceeds go to the artist directly.

The Cambrian Explosion

Workin on the Cambrian Explosion for Burning Life. Is like nothing I've ever done before. On such a large scale...

Opening on October 17 - 25th, the Burning Life 2009 experience is absorbing much of my time lately. This work mixes realism and abstraction in a fun and exciting way. I'm experimenting with different effects of light, sounds, and other scripts. I've reached 270 prims already, even after removing the flatbed.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cienega_soon/3959841004/

Cienega Soon visited and took a picture - posted on Flickr.

New Series - Fauve

Governor's Palace exhibit July 28 - August 23 2009, featuring the art of Maryva Mayo - Sledge Roffo - Layachi Ihnen - Ragamuffin Kips.

This series sculpture uses a texture I made with pastels and then uploaded. The combined use of geometric and organic shapes provided some new looking images and colors that are subtle, rather than bold.

Also included in the exhibit is the series, "Lexicon".

Cat Shilova was there to help with some French translating.

http://www.pirats.fr/p-27-n-43-vernissage_opening_palais_du_gouverneur_mardi_28_juillet_2009.html

New Primagery Series - Poseidon

This series takes me back to my roots using the twisted torus and the sphere but with new emphasis on line. The sculpture does not rotate so that the viewer can peer into it like I do to take the snapshots. A full sized sculpture is also available with a particle script which inspired the title. I hope to show it sometime soon but liked this cozy little setup here at PiRats for the smaller one. Sales have been super slow lately as the economy is down but we persevere. My work is still evolving but in more subtle ways. My next experiment will be to explore ways to evoke the look and feel of stained or leaded glass in a new chandelier series. This show opened on Tuesday and runs through July 18.

Visit: http://slurl.com/secondlife/PiRats%20Art%20Network/85/92/63

ALL PROCEEDS GO TO THE ARTISTS!

Cascadia Artwalk Opened

I'm glad I finally have an LM to this spot...I had to dive from a nightclub in the sky and then swim over...and all the while carrying a sculpture and that was over a month ago. I want to change it out to my newest Stronger Dance and make some room on my Profile Picks to promote the site. My picks are full..the latest being an installation called "Cancerland" which I just went through recently. I can't really say I enjoyed it...but it was moving. So......am thinking that my blog will have to become an extension of my picks. Sometimes exhibitions go on alot longer than expected and the picks get full quick. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Enetai%20Bay/193/200/24

Giving this some creative thought considering the previous blog.

Waves and the Sea

Unbelievable captures of a natural event that I found on a Cool Picture site. The shapes and colors and translucency attract me as well as the negative space. I try to capture depth in my pictures but it is often difficult, given the medium. Then again, I haven't tried to take pictures while my sculptures are sitting on water with something in the background. I should try that sometime but then it would be more like a photograph and less like a painting. I am jealous of photographers that can take pics in SL with Basic Shaders on. I crash or end up with seams. Its amazing that I get any quality shots at all.

Autism Auction at Angel Dorei

Ataraxis (the name of this sculpture) means "emotional calming" which I feel exemplifies the hope of many people who suffer from the often times hyper activity of Autism. This one-of-a-kind sculpture will be auctioned off in the Autism fundraising event that starts April 4 at Angel Dorei curated by Mariposa Upshaw. This sculpture has a resize script so can make it smaller or larger. It also has a rotation on or off switch.

Angel Dorei Paradise, Angel Dorei, Solaris (208, 135, 91)

Exhibits for April

This is the first month since my first solo exhibit in December that I don't have a show outside of my own gallery. There are current exhibits at Lars Gallery that will close this month and my display on the third floor of the Aho Museum will be permanent (Whoo-Hoo!) ...but...outside of that, I have a little break to work on new things for May and beyond. My shows at Gulara and Tricia Aferdita's gallery closed at the end of March.

The Mask exhibit was tons of fun. I submitted a transforming mask that opens when you click it. I'm anxious to return and get another look when it isn't so laggy. The show opened on Sunday, March 29, 2009. Lots of great work by a variety of artists. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Erato%20of%20Caerleon/147/214/29

The Noobs on Parade exhibit was also a riot. It was fun to work on something outside of my comfort zone and it was an experiment with interactive sculpture. See photo. Most of the work was comical. Mine, not so much.

Angel Dorei is hosting an Autism auction that I will be participating in this month. I created a sculpture that I will donate to the cause. I'm experimenting with particle scripts and hope to learn a little along the way. Primagery is still my main focus and I have collected 5 new series for a May show at anandra and am working on 3 more. I have another solo exhibit in May at Autopilotpatty's gallery and will showcase my work to a new audience.

I'm also doing some collaborative work that I will write about a little more about later. All in all, I'm looking forward to the month of April.

Motion

Inspiration comes from many things and it may just be a stepping off point. Action and motion are often difficult to convey in pictures but possible in Second Life sculpture.

Interested in seeing where this will take me without being figurative.

Like Moths - Its Primal

We are drawn to light. I always have been and continue to be fascinated with light. I search the light in the sculptures I make for the images that draw me in.

What these artists depicted in the series listed below dedicated their whole lives to, we are just tapping the surface of in Second Life. There is so much more to be discovered.

It may not be possible for me to visit these places in real life or see these light shows...but perhaps there is something that can inspire more within me for my work in Second Life.

Part One: http://sharerevmedia.com/component/option,com_seyret/Itemid,52/task,videodirectlink/id,798030/

Part Two:

http://sharerevmedia.com/component/option,com_seyret/Itemid,52/task,videodirectlink/id,798029/

Part Three:

http://www.livevideo.com/video/39988B1B831D4938A670D5255A4B28C7/imagine-let-there-be-light-.aspx

Part Four:

http://www.livevideo.com/video/ACE60ACE564148498D28E5F86E5AF1E7/imagine-let-there-be-light-.aspx

I hope to acquire Part Five and continue this journey.

The Science and Art of Mathematica

This photo looks a little like something I'm working on and Calabi-Yau sounds like a good name for it. I don't know too much about string theory, quantum gravity, 11 dimensions, etc, but I can appreciate the beauty of the graphical representation. I always liked cubism because it wasn't precise and what I do is never precise. Its purely random and illogical. Mathematica melds art and science in this collection on http://gallery.wolfram.com/ Beautiful graphical representations of Dodecahedra, Icosahedra ,Lissajous Boxes,Moire Trefoil, Polyhedras, and other mathematical art. I wish I had the ability to create something like these in Second Life but I don't. I'll leave that up to Seifert Surface, et al. Michael Trott is rockin! Mathematical sculptors abound: Carlo H. Sequin, Brent Collins, and many more I have yet to discover. Hey...even my Aunt Maggie can knit a mathematical example: