Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting
The Outer Garden is a lovely place to visit if you want to walk through a dream. It is also a Flickr group with over 1,000 members and 3,000 pictures. “Déjà vu” by Maquia captures the hallucinatory elements of a dream, a dream where a circus wagon seems as large as a moon that rests on a silken sea. [To teleport, click here]
For more loveliness from The Outer Garden group , click here:
Seb gives us the romance of a ballet in “Contretemps.” Her skirt flies up almost like the wings of a fairy. The setting seems perfect for a performance of Les Sylphides. I love how he adds dimension with depth of field and the impression of light coming from the left. Simply beautiful.
//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js
Stella Guardian shows us what a little light or a little less light can do. The ethereal garden of white flowers and bubbles and streamers and waterfalls is suddenly grim, reminiscent of photos of war zones with the rubble of a building that has collapsed in on itself.
//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js
And then Raz gives us another mood with “Sorrow” showing how one place can be interpreted and understood in so many different ways.
//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js
Bisou Dexler opened a new part of his garden in April, refreshing the scene for visitors and offering a new palette in reds, blacks, and white. It’s bold and brilliant and this poster captures the minimalist beauty that offers such a strong contrast with the abundance of his white garden. He also recounts the story that inspired his garden.
The Outer Garden is a group that has lasted nine years without collapsing into a spam-filled collection of SL hodge-podge. That’s a long time to keep checking the photo submissions and to continue to refresh and revitalize a lovely garden sim.
All images copyright the various artists.
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!)
//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js
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 sixteen 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.
Wagner James Au / New World Notes 
Leave a comment