Art in Second Life 2021 (20) Scandal by Milena Carbone

04 Mar 2021 Leave a comment

by diomitamaurer in Art in Second Life Tags: , , , , , , ,

I was invited to the opening of “Scandal”, Milena Carbone’s newest exhibition at The Carbone Gallery. I wasn’t able to attend the opening event on Wednesday, February 17th. Instead I visited a few days before the opening and I had the opportunity to talk with Milena.
Milena, being a story teller, combines several aspects in “Scandal”. There’s first the opening event. Milena has designed a choreography of a ballet, based on Philip Glass music and SL ballet and dance poses. She told me that she will dance herself. I can’t report about this event as I missed it.

Scandal is a series of 8 pictures about the character of Iselin, an Icelandic girl who becomes a Christ in the XXI century. It is Milena’s third story of a contemporary christ, after the Brazilian child in the exhibition Locked, and the mixed-race gay Mahdi in the exhibition Plead Guilty. This work will probably close her series of Christs.

The location of this exhibition is outstanding. Milena reproduced the Church of Light, designed by the famous architect Tadao Ando. The church will stay as a permanent part of the gallery, for exhibition, concerts, and prays. I never heard of this church before and hence visiting “Scandal” inspired me to do some reasearch on the internet about this church and it’s architect. I recommend to start with the wikipedia entries about the church of light and about Tadao Ando. Milena did a great job transferring the church into Second Life – and it is a great place for future exhibitions and other events. Chapeau!

The exhibition Scandal is related to the theory of social violence of René Girard, a french anthropologist. He wrote a book called “Woe to the man through whom scandal comes” where he showed how Jesus Christ unveiled the role of sacrifice, and how the innocents are sacrified. I also read about René Girard in wikipedia. Girard showed how conflicts in social groups are solved by the scapegoat mechanism.

Impressions of “Scandal by Milena Carbone” (1)

The 8 pictures are exhibited inside of the church of light. They relate to the story of the Icelandic girl Iselin, but they stand for themselves as well without the story. They deal with religion, with innocence and with a culminating act of violence. Milena has the plot of the story in her mind and will publish it most probably as another book, a small book that you can read within Second Life, in the course of March 21. It was not written yet at the time of my visit. I intend to visit Scandal again when the story is published.

Impressions of “Scandal by Milena Carbone” (2)

Milena Carbone (mylena1992) is a French artist and is in Second Life since mid 2019. She discovered its artistic potential and since then has devoted all her free time to creation, associating, as in real life, images and texts: “Milena Carbone is a fiction in which, as in any artistic work, biographical and imaginary elements are mixed.” Her creative process is iterative: some of her images inspire her stories and these stories modify the development of the image, which itself transforms the story.

On February 22nd Milena told me that she rearranged the exhibiton and included pictures of the opening concert and ballet to make it part of the exhibition and to save the impressions. The concert consisted of a series of 15 pieces composed by Philip Glass, gathered in 7 parts, each introduced by a libretto written by Milena Carbone.
The dancers of the ballet were Milena Carbone and Belice Benoir, Nieu (NieuwenHove) supported them with the technic. The now showcased pictures of the even were taken by Charlotte Belladona (charlottebelladonna) and .Crazy Dust. (zigboom) and can also be seen at their flickr pages here and here.

Impressions of the opening event of “Scandal” by Milena Carbone

Thank you for another great exhibition, Milena. Scandal inspired me to quite some research and hence was educational for me – and it impressed me.

Landmark to The Carbone Gallery
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Woiler/172/158/3316
Landmark to The Carbone Gallery @ Noir’Wen City
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Noir%20Wen/243/203/32
Milena Carbone’s Flickr page
https://www.flickr.com/photos/milenacarbone/
Milena Carbone’s writing (blog)
https://medium.com/@539568
Charlotte Belladonna (charlottebelladonna)’s flickr
https://www.flickr.com/photos/186968761@N05/
.Crazy Dust. (zigboom)’s flickr
https://www.flickr.com/photos/zigboom/

 

Diary 2021 (22) February 13th/14th Selfbondage going wrong

03 Mar 2021 Leave a comment

by diomitamaurer in Diary Tags: , , , , , , , ,

Saturday afternoon I was inworld in the afternoon before Mistress. I sorted inventory and went checking two galleries. When Mistress came inworld I returned home and found her cleaning up our dance place from the Chinese New Year party the day before. We went to club Domme a Domme to catch up with our mutual news. Wearing my partnering collar I have all freedoms, I could have taken a green light. But then this time seemed too precious to me although the thought always comes up when I see my Mistress wife. I decided for something different – on one side to have fun myself, on the other side I know Jenny loves that. I made her wear her new corset with the breast bondage and her elegance wrist cuffs and the elegance collar. I myself changed into a corset and added the elegance collar to the wrist cuffs that I wore before already.

I locked Jenny’s collar and leashed her to me and asked her to do the same. I added the leash hoder to my neck and so did Jenny. This way we were leashed to each other, the keys of our wrist cuffs out – a perfect prey couple. I knew nothing would happen at all but we could enjoyed being exposed to potential troubles.
Jenny and I are different. I often wear my cuffs keeping the keys myself (they seemingly are out though). They are set so that if anyone clicks on them, I am asked to allow it – and I can decide if it is someone I want to play with. A perfect setting for me. Jenny likes playing harder with no security. At club Domme a Domme we had no luck, so we decided to move on. Jenny unleashed me so that I could travel to Dark Butterfly and could summon her to me. At Dark Butterfly she leashed me again. But then she changed the settings of her and my collar taking off the security channel to reach any menu and taking off self an other touch, leaving keys out of course *sighs*.
Jenny called an acquaintance named Allie to help us out. Allie came to Dark Butterfly, took the keys of our collars, unleashed us – crashed and didn’t return. We were stuck, unable to help each other, unable to help ourselves.

February 13th: Jenny and Diomita in self-inflicted troubles

In the meanwhile it was time for both of us to leave for dinner. We returned to our secret place and logged off.

When I returned Jenny was tied up and gagged, wearing a transparent catsuit. She had stayed inworld and Allie had taken control of her and had just left. I learned that Mistress didn’t know her but had called for help in a group for couple kidnapping, not knowing who would answer her call. Oh dear, she must have seeked trouble – she found trouble.

Our night was .. ehm … different. We stayed at our secret place, unable to teleport, unable to touch, unable to help each other. I just don’t understand why we could teleport to our place. Anyway, Allie didn’t show up again during the the next 4 hours. Jenny and I had plenty of time together. We chatted with Flo who was at home and we chatted with Faye. Jenny was sorry for getting us into this helplessness, I was sorry for reproaching her first. So we were even.
As I said – not much to report about that night. Finally our cleaning lady came. It was a bit embarrassing that she found us like this, but she helped us out.

February 13th: Jenny and Diomita helpless

Sunday, February 14th, we relaxed from our failed selfbondage experience. When we met in the afternoon, we went seeing Angelique first and added her to our cuffs, so that we could call her in an emergency next time. We spent some time at club Domme a Domme yet nothing was really going on. Hence we returned home and played a greedy before we had to return to our RL.

February 14th: Jenny and Diomita with Angelique at home and at club Domme a Domme

At night we met with Flo who was wearing another straight jacket and a neck corest – ready for me to lock it. I did lock her of course. Due to the magic of SL she could play cards nonetheless and we had on game of skipee. we went to Carnal Intentions and watched what was going on there (not much). We talked, had Faye with us shortly – and we releaxed.
After Flo had left we moved on to Dark Butterfly. It was full there and we saw new faces and read new profiles. I had Jenny by my feet – lovely. At mightnight I asked Jenny to return to our skybox and to strip – I would summon her. I went to our secret place, stripped myself and called for her. Then we spoiled eachother before it was time to go to bed.

Ferurary 14th: Jenny and Diomitw with Flo at Carnal Intentions, at Dark Butterfly and at our secret place

A real contrast to the night before!

Art in Second Life 2021 (19) Ant Farm Light Gallery by Regi Yifu featuring Bachi Cheng

02 Mar 2021 Leave a comment

by diomitamaurer in Art in Second Life Tags: , , , , ,

I visited “Ant Farm Light Gallery” by Regi Yifu at SLEA Region 4 SE.
Ant Farm Light Gallery is a feast for the eyes. As you can see in the overview picture it consists of a long winded tube, almost looking like instestines. You enter it right at where you land and you will be overwhelmed by the colours and lights.

Like the skin of a snake the tubes consists of scales, often in a flamboyant pin, always coloured, and light dances over the scales, providing every changing effects. Once you got accustomed to the lights you enter deeper into the tube. At every curve is a picture that consists of several layers and is blurred, you can just guees what it shows. Once you cet closer the picture gets clear.

The pictures are from Bachi Cheng and show adult scenes, some quite explicit.

Impressions of “Ant Farm Light Gallery by Regi Yifu featuring Bachi Cheng” (1)

Walking in the tube isn’t easy as the colours are intriguing. I aslo bumped into something and was force teleported to another point several times. I do not know if that was intended or just a mulfunction of the experience setting. With all the impressions and the picutres exploring this exhibition is fun and I did enjoy it.

Impressions of “Ant Farm Light Gallery by Regi Yifu featuring Bachi Cheng” (2)

Regi Yifu says about herself: “I am a gregarious bohemian artist from Texas! Here to have fun and meet cool people from all over the world! Love building stuff, making dance effects, and DJing! I also melt glass in my kiln and love to cook. Only boring people get bored!”
He’s in SL for more than 13 years, he makes customized gestures and contumized smoke, he has an own store inworld  and on the marketplace, he has a light gallery …. and he is a dj …. and loves to play with light!

Impressions of “Ant Farm Light Gallery by Regi Yifu featuring Bachi Cheng” (3)

Sofi (Bachi Cheng) is in Second Life almost 12 years. She’s, an artist painter and designer in RL and SL. Bachi writes about herself and her art: “I love to paint Moments. Moments of life, Moments of Love, Moments so deep that you never want to forget them, Moments at the edge of orgasm or despair, just life like we ought to live it, plainly. Let me take you in the core of my Art”
Her art is quite feisty and exaggerated, transpiring her message clearly and not subtle, sometimes reminding of comic strips and clearly explicit.
Sofi (Bachi Cheng) has also her own gallery here.

Impressions of “Ant Farm Light Gallery by Regi Yifu featuring Bachi Cheng” (4)

I enjoyed my visit to Ant Farm Light Gallery. It was fun to walk through the tubes as well with all the effects as to see Bachi’s pictures. Thank you Regi and Sofi for this installation, thank you Tansee for all of your work getting SLEA on the start.
Ant Farm Light Gallery will be available for a visit until end of March 2021.

Landmark to Ant Farm Light Gallery by Regi Yifu featuring Bachi Cheng
at SLEA Region 4 SE
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SLEA4/122/130/23
Regi Yifu’s store Regimade Factory inworld
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/GAY%20ISLAND%20Lagoon/226/220/2001
Regi Yifu’s store Regimade Factory marketplace
https://marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/26852
Regi Yifu’s light gallery
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/GAY%20ISLAND%20Lagoon/37/19/3002
Sofi (Bachi Cheng)’s gallery
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Northfarthing/111/108/602

Diary 2021 (21) February 11th/12th My 13th rezzday inworld and the Chinese New Year

01 Mar 2021 Leave a comment

by diomitamaurer in Diary Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

February 11th, was my 13th rezzday anniversary. How time flies! Mistress had a lovely rezzday present for me that I got the night before at midnight – she exchanged my slave collar with my partnering collar for one week. Hence my rezzday was the first day wearing this collar and having no rules to follow.
Mistress Jenny and I spent more than an hour together in the afternoon and visited club Domme a Domme and Puerto Esclava. And we were busy in a nice way. Firstly we had a loger chat with a domme who wanted to dominate us. We will see if anything develops from that. And secondly slave N (naahdia) showed up again. She almost desparately begged be enslaved again – Mistress and I promised to consider it.

February 11th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at club Domme a Domme and Puerto Esclava

At night we played a skipee with Flo first, the we went to Carnal Intentions. Mistress Jenny and Flo made sure that everybody noticed my rezzday and I got a lot of attention – not that I asked for it, but I enjoyed it. We moved on to Caged Elegance where Gravity (theriaeriker) had her party that night. Dancing is a good way to celebrate a rezzday. We had fun there and of course Mistress and Flo made sure once again that everybody knew about me secret rezzday *laughs*.

February 11th: Mistress Jenny, Flo and Diomita at Carnal Intentions, at Caged Elegance and at Runaround Sue’s Hop

And after Flo had left, Mistress and I went to Runaround Sue’s Hop and dance there listening to oldies with my favourite German DJHarti. Guess what? , Mistress made sure that I got attention again and confetti.
A nice, relaxed rezzday, thank you Mistress! And thank you all family and friends.

We had a lovely afternoon on Friday, February 12th. Side by side and without any rules or restrictions, we visited Puerto Esclava, club Domme a Domme and Heavy Bondage Club. Faye joined us at Heavy Bondage Club. We talked and we drafted the theme for our Friday night party: “Today is Chinese New Year and it’s Friday. For our party wear you favourite Chinese dress, or as it is the year of the Ox you can come as anything cow related – or simply wear your clothes as you are that say made in China. DJ Virgo is spinning the tunes.”

We returned home after more than an hour and having no rules nor restrictions I asked Mistress to strip and to wear her cuff set – and she did. I took her to the annex of our skybox and fixed her on at bondage rack there. Then I teased her until she literally begged me to lick her to an orgasm – and I got my fix *winks*. Having no rules, I released Mistress again and we went back to main part of our skybox and I removed the cuffs. We both changed into something with an Asian look. Then Mistress asked me if I had some more time and I had. We went down to the dance floor and Mistress began to decorate it. She had bought a tea house, lights, lions on a podoest, a fountain and some plants. She decorated the dance floor for the next half hour until she was satisfied with the result. She did a great job!

February 12th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at club Domme a Domme, at Heavy Bondage Club with Faye, at home in the annex of our skybox and at the decorated dance floor

February 12th: Our dance floor decorated for the Chinese New Year

Our party started slowly, Virgo ran a bit late. As we weren’t many Mistress even teleported her occasional plaything Genesis Chamberdoll (Fang Starlight) to us, yet Genesis was absent and stood there like a latex statue all night long. But later more and more guests came to party with us and we had fun. Baroness Capelo and Claven made sure that I finally got my rezzday spanks (my bum must still be red *winks*). Starbright Wingtips also got her rezzday spankes – she rezzed the very same day as I did. And Faye got a dance with Mistress Jenny. It was another great Friday night with Virgo having to strip in the end. And we celebrated long.

February 12th – Friday night party: Flo, Diomita, Mistress Jenny, Faye, Baroness Capelo, Gravity (TheriaEriker), Suzi M (SuziMeyer), Laura (laura00175), Dr. Mara Lynn (Maralyn Corleone), Claven Albatros, Genesis Chamberdoll (Fang Starlight) (upper row), Faye and Mistress Jenny, Della Randt, Starbright Wingtips, Sara (SaraRandall), Claire (maddh4tt3r), Firefly Starlight, Talos (Talosborn), Virgo Babii, Virgo Babii (lower row)

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