Wagner James Au / New World Notes

Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting

Nadej Dae’s picture feels like a hallucination. “On ferme les yeux des morts avec douceur c'est aussi avec douceur qu'il faut ouvrir les yeux des vivants,” Google translate tells me this means “We close the eyes of the dead gently; it is also gently that we must open the eyes of the living,” I’ve written about Nadej before, fascinated by her imaginative photography. To me, it feels like she walks between worlds and brings back images to show us. .

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“Lost Flowers” is far less hallucinatory. It has an old world feel to it. The sepia color, the degradation of the surface the picture is on. I love how the flowers form a subtle, but present, arc. It is as though the earth is wearing a crown. It’s beautiful. If it were a real life print, I would hang it in my home.

“The distant day exists but the one that will not come does not exist.” This feels a bit like a tautology. I am not sure her intent, but what I see is the border between worlds. Is this the multiverse? Or is this the border between life and death? Will the day that will not come is the day after you no longer exist so will never exist to you in your present form. There is such an ominous feeling on the left engendered from our fear of the dark. Ominous or not, I love it. 

Nadej Dae must live in a remarkable mind. I’ve never met her, but I bet she enjoys her own company. Her imagination must engage her mind so that she can be alone and absorbed without a moment of boredom. Does she know what boredom is? Her pictures are relative simple. They mostly have a few elements, trees, clouds, and some animal, avatar, or plant. But her three things say well over a thousand words. They create worlds 

All images copyright Nadej Dae

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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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