As often happens when I get on a roll with these iterative works, I am producing a lot of new stuff, and I’ve run out of room in my new, tiny gallery, so I’ve put some new stuff on the wall out the back, I’m calling this my ‘Outer Space‘…

… security is very heavy, out the back, here…

… with a seasoned group of hardened characters…

… steely-eyed and alert to any hint of malfeasance…

… (:

I’ve put some new work in my new gallery. If you wanted to see the Hangars Liquides work, they are on the second floor in my little space at Adelina’s place…

… I’ve been thinking a lot about life and death, lately…

… how thin the veil is…

… between being in either state. We are a long time dead, it takes major life changes to seriously appreciate being alive, most of us just waste it, sleepwalking through it. My human once read a zen saying that went something like ‘Live every day as though your hair was on fire’, the human was about 24, and just didn’t really get it. The human gets it, now.

I visited Dimrill Dale, today. I’ve never been here, before, and discovered it quite serendipitously…

… I was pottering in my bedroom, at home, when my ERD ‘FraymWerk’ glasses, which are invisible glasses I’ve worn for years, now, that have a radar that gives me a heads-up of nearby avatars, more consistently than the ‘nearby people’ function of Firefox does, informed me there was an avatar 30 meters away from me, which is pretty close, and I generally have a look at who is in the hood, as there’s usually no-one. I was intrigued to see a cute little, foxlike avi just over my fence, on some empty land behind my neighbours land. Just as I clicked on her, to read her profile, she vanished, but I’d seen her name, so, my interest piqued, I searched her, and read her profile. Her ‘picks’ had Dimrill Dale in them, so I went and had a look…

… this place is, as far as I could gather from the fox’s ‘picks’, part of a large, long-running sim called Calas Galadhon Park…

… it’s very pretty, very lush and green…

… I found several lovely meadows with great views…

… I’m surprised I’ve never wound up here, if it’s been running for years, but, that’s the nature of SL, isn’t it? There’s so much you never get to see, unless you keep looking, everywhere, even in the profiles of little, wandering foxes.

I felt like being slightly dramatic…

… in one of the many amazing ‘backdrop’ builds I have collected in recent years…

… wearing some stunningly dramatic gear I’ve recently, like, yesterday, acquired…

… I seldom dress this provocatively…

… or dramatically…

… but it was fun (:

I decided it was time to spend some more time taking pictures in my favourite futureopolis…

… this time, instead of actually hoofing it through the city, I sat on the balcony of my gorgeous little apartment, and cammed around…

… just soaking up the lovely juxtaposition of neon and shadow, architecture and sky…

… I never get tired of Hangars Liquides…

… it’s such a visual feast…

… I took nearly two hundred images, it’s not hard to do, really, once I get on a roll. I’ve posted these six, here, and I’ve also put them and two others up in my new gallery. If you want to see them large, please come and have a look (:

I love my SL home, I spend hours pottering around in it, rearranging things, adding things, moving things. One of my favourite rooms is my work/play room, these are some of it’s corners. This one has the closest to a ‘theme’ about it, it’s where I’ve put several of my ‘nautical’ treasures…

… this is the prettiest corner…

… and I guess this is the most ‘practical’ corner…

… I need to put those comics back in their box.

My continuing journey through my past took me back to Linden Memorial Park, yesterday. When I was a noob, I spent a lot of time wandering around places like this, because they were generally empty, and felt safe to a new-born avi afraid of her own shadow. I’ve not been back here for years…

… I was straight away struck by the simple beauty of the place, especially in the dawn light…

… Linden Memorial Park is ‘dedicated to the residents of Second Life’, and, as the name implies, is a huge memorial setting…

… it is hard not to feel emotion, here…

… the structures have a monolithic weight and simplicity…

… that is elegant and timeless…

… as you roam around this huge, soothing space, you come across many poignant memorials…

… eventually I have to stop looking at them, they make me too sad, it breaks my heart that death is as much a reality, here in this virtual escape from reality, as it is in reality… we can’t escape it, and, as you travel around SL, you see memorials everywhere to much-loved avatars whose humans are deceased. For some reason I find these memorials much sadder than my human ever finds grave stones in RL.

As my journey through the past of my travels continues, I visited ACC ALPHA. This place is one of the most surreal, unashamedly art-as-environment destinations I have ever seen in SL, and it’s been running for over ten years, now…

… the first time I came here, years ago, I have to admit I didn’t actually like it that much, I found it too abstract, and too confusing. This time is the first time I’ve really been able to spend a long time here, and it is really quite stunning, and very unique…

… I love the confident, avant-garde architecture. There are little galleries everywhere, here…

… I also discovered, this visit, that there actually are areas of more conventional beauty and looks…

… which are just as stunning as all the surreal stuff…

… of which there is plenty.