Backflash July 2021 – “LICK – Heaven or Hell” (July 2016)

31 Jul 2021 Leave a comment

by diomitamaurer in Backflash of the month Tags: , , , , ,

In the “Backflash” series I select an old entry once a month and present it here. This way I force myself to browse in the archive and to fresh up a few of the many memories. For our readers the series shall provide an insight into our Second Life without reading back the many posts and it might also give reason to browse through the archives.
For July 2021 I scrolled back once again 5 years and selected a post from July 2016: “LICK – Heaven or Hell”
Actually today i would categorize this post under “Exploring sims in Second Life” or eventually under “Art in Second Life”, but these categories didn’t exist yet when this post was written.
The landmark provided with the original post doesn’t exist anymore, the sim is gone. That is no surprise after 5 years. Nonetheless my post and my pictures still exist. And also the video on youtube about the sim (it is a bit lengthy with over 50 minutes) still exists. Enjoy reading!

LICK – Heaven or Hell

What a title (!). Actually this post is not what you think it might be about. “Heaven or Hell” is a sim in Second Life. I found it browsing through the SL destination guide under the tag “Art”. The descrpiton doesn’t say that much “Has your fate been decided for you or will you decide? Choose wisely, choose carefully. And remember you can always check out but you can never leave. Turn your sounds up and get ready for the ride.”

July 23rd: Diomita visiting "Heaven or Hell"

July 23rd: Diomita visiting “Heaven or Hell”

At the landing point you have to decide to go to heaven or to hell. Btw. have you ever thought about why there is as stariway to heaven but a highway to hell? I like the text between the two doors “When you think of heaven and hell, you already have images in your meind of what you think it should look like. No right or wrong they are your images and these are mine“. Mine refers to Sera Bellic, who owns this sim and “LICK” sim design.  “LICK sim design offers complete sim/parcel design, landscaping and interior design. LICK is dedicated to creating beautiful, enchanting spaces for your home or business.” Back to my simploring. I decided to see hell first. For going to hell you step downstairs into a dark area, fire is everywhere, it looks very hot.

July 23rd: Diomita stepping down to hell

July 23rd: Diomita stepping down to hell

Walking around you see some dead bodies, some cages and some steam fountains erupting through the hot ground, the eternal fire of hell is around you. After a while I found the entrance to go further down to hell, a tunnel system that is connecting caves. Skeletons and skulls lie on the ground everywhere and dinosaur skeletons guard the entrances to the caves. You can hear screams every once in a while when your sound is turned up. Scary? Yes.

July 23rd: Diomita in hell

July 23rd: Diomita in hell

Ok, the hell did meet my expectations, my images and what I’ve been told about hell when I was a kid. But how will heaven look alike? Good news is, in Second Life you can see both :-).  So I stepped up from hell and went further upstairs to heaven. Heaven is a beautiful and peaceful place, an harmonic landscape.

July 23rd: On my way from hell to heaven

July 23rd: On my way from hell to heaven

July 23rd: Diomita in heaven

July 23rd: Diomita in heaven

Ok, the heaven did not meet exactly my expectations. I saw no angels and I didn’t hear plainchants and I didn’t walk on clouds. Shame! :-). But heaven in SL is still nice. I walked a bit around and found 2 spots that did make up with my expectations. Firstly I walked over a bridge build of violins and secondly I visited the only house in heaven and obviously the angels get their wings there.

July 23rd: Diomita walking over the bridge of violins

July 23rd: Diomita walking over the bridge of violins

July 23rd: Diomita selecting her wings :-)

July 23rd: Diomita selecting her wings 🙂

One last remark: I my imagination the word “LICK” can mean heaven sometimes *winks*

If you don’t want to go the “Heaven and Hell” yourself you can also watch a video from Andrew Carvin that is a bit lengthy though here. Thank you Sera Bellic for this piece of imagination of heaven and hell.

Link to the original post:
https://themaurers.me/2016/07/24/lick-heaven-or-hell/

 

 

Diary 2021 (94) July 16th/17th The Angels

30 Jul 2021 Leave a comment

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Friday, July 16th, I met Mistress unexpectedly in the early afternoon, when I logged in to check messages and to have a quick look at the club and on who is inworld. We met at club Domme a Domme and could catch up with our news, then I had to leave again to tend to my RL. Mistress took me to our loft skybox and left me leashed and kneeling there (because she can).
We met again in the afternoon and Mistress took me to Heavy Bondage Club where I knelt at her feet. We chatted and I had another IM with a domme friend of mine. Mistress sent me over to this friend and ordered met to subhug her – which I did of course. After half an hour we left the club and returned to the loft skybox. Mistress was pleased by me and rewarded me. I was allowed to lick her and to get another fix. Thank you, mistress Jeny

July 16th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at Heavy Bondage Club and at our loft skybox

At night we had our regular Friday night party of course. Mistress and I selected a theme fitting to the last week in RL:
“It’s Friday again, and if it’s Friday, it’s party! With all the rain in Western Europe during the last week wear something protective, rain wear or brollies, or come as you are – even naked works fine against the rain. DJ Virgo is spinning the tunes.”
We had fun as always although Virgo wasn’t present. Luckily the radio channel had classic 1980’s rock and was not bad at all. And our rainy fun was also somewhat overshadowed by the tragic impact of the rain in RL. But we are here to escape from RL and have fun first.

July 16th – Friday night party: Mistress Jenny, Diomita, Angelique, Dely Ebony (krysbia), Elena (Elenaslv Sernity), Claven Albatros, Laura (laura00175), Baroness Capelo, Nessa (nessasub) (upper row), Elvanshalee Morningstar, Della Randt, Starbright Wingtips, Sara (SaraRandall), Claire (maddh4tt3r), Zarra Darkheart, Virgo Babii (lower row)

Just in time for our midnight song Virgo showed up and thus we had even this song. Thank you, Virgo.

Saturday, July 17th, Mistress and I spent an hour together in the afternoon at club Domme a Domme and club DeLust. We just chatted and made plans – and enjoyed our time together. Good news: I had got a message from Flo, who let us know that she’s doing well and should be back with us soon.

July 17th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at club Domme a Domme and at club DeLust

Saturday night Mistress Jenny and I were alone as none of our closer family was inworld. Hence we began our night again with a tour throught he clubs, but nothing really happened. We considered attenting one of the many Staurday night parties or to seek trouble and decided the latter. We changed into our “Angelique” outfits, added cuffs with keys out and started our tour at Carnal Intentions. Carnal Intentions had moved and is now at a sim with some inworld stores of renown fetish brands like NGW, GRIMA and Hugo – and is not limited to 20 avatars anymore.

July 17th – the Angels on tour: at Carnal Intentions, club Domme a Domme, EvaTec, club DeLust and Puerto Esclava

We went dancing at EvaTec, we went to club Domme a Domme and club DeLust. We went to Puerto Esclava and finally back to Carnal Intentions, where we met Faye (Boy Serenity). Of course we didn’t find any trouble, but the “Angels” had fun provoking a bit. And at Carnal Intentions was a bigger crowd celebrating the new location, so we danced once again.
Overall and unexpectedly we had fun!

Art in Second Life 2021 (68) La Maison d’Aneli Summer 21

29 Jul 2021 Leave a comment

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

On Wednesday, July 28th, a new exhibtion was opened at La Maison d’Aneli: “Summer 21”. It features the artwork of Giovanna Cerise, Marylooooe, Elodiecasa Dragovar, Deyanira Yalin, lo01ner01, Mareea Farrasco and Fly Kugin (flyqueeen).

For this exhibtion Aneli Abeyante, owner and curator of La Maison d’Aneli, has a special gift for the visitors. She offers a (attachable or displayable inworld) SL booklet that shows examples of the artwork of the participating artists on 2 pages for each artist. Hence – I could have refrained from taking pictures. You find the booklet at the end of the main hall, next to the event area for the opening event. It is displayed at the seating groups.

Aneli Abeyante’s booklet about the Summer 21 exhibition

The event area is also the space where Fly Kugin (flyqueeen) has her exhibition space.
Fly Kugin (flyqueeen), as a live violin performer, is streaming into Second Life from Istanbul, since September 2019. She’s performing improvisation, Jazz & Rock genres, musicals & soundtracks from different time periods from various artists. But Fly also likes to spend her time taking pictures of landscapes and playing with them on photoshop. And she is still learning different techniques.

At the event area Fly showcased some of her pictures, all of them were taken in Second Life and processed afterwards to make them look like oil paintings. The combiantion of art and Second Life offers great opportunities for artists. Fly also gave a violin concert on the opening event. Fly has an own website with more information and a flickr account.

Fly Kugin’s pages in Aneli’s booklet

Giovanna Cerise is not unknow to me. The last time I came across her art was in May 2019 at La Maison d’Aneli (read here). Before I visited Flash Back / Flash Forward in 2017 (read Simploring 2017 (42) Flash Back / Flash Forward), in 2016 I visited her LEA-installation Monochrome (read here) and in April 2015 I saw Otium (read here: A visit to Otium). Giovanna is an Italian literature teacher and musician. In Second Life she’s active since Ende of 2008 and had many exhibtions and installations. She particpated in the LEA program participations and her list of activities and appearances is long. For more information look up her website.

Giovanna Cerise used her space at La Maison d’Aneli to showcase her “Doll’s house”. It is a space main held in black and white with clear structures that is partly in 3D and party in 2D (but looks 3D). The space has several houses, more a Doll’s village. And there are dolls, I’d rather say ballerinas or dancers. The dolls are stylised, performing alone or as couples in front of the houses or on the open space. There’s quite some to discover viewing at Giovanna Cerise’s installation from different viewing angles.

Giovanna Cerise’s pages in Aneli’s booklet

It is the first time that I came across the artist Marylooooe, She is in Second Life for 5 years and had several small and two larger exhibitions in favor of “Feed a smile” and the “Parkinson foundation”.

Marylooooe set up a 4 story gallery building in her skybox at La Maison d’Aneli. She named her exhibtion “Art of me – coynty art”. Marylooooe uploaded her RL artwork into Second Life. All of her art is very colourful, strong and expressive colours. On the four floors Marylooooe grouped her pictures. The ground floor shows some abstract pictures along with pictures in which you can recognize an animal, a goat? The 2nd floor is dedicated to flowers an abstact pictures, which could also be flowers because of how colourful they are. On the 3rd floor are some pictures showing a cow or a cow’s face. And finally the 4th foor is used to showcase some landscapes, towns and villages. For all of her pictures you need imagiantion, you have to connect with them to see the details beside the colours. Marylooooe wrote about her skybox in the accompanying notecard: “All my pictures exist in the original in rl. This exhibition country art is based on an idea originated when a friend asked: do you paint cows too, why not, and so i got down to work. A series of works was created and I hope you will have as much fun looking at them as I had painting them.” (from the accompanying notecard)

Marylooooe’s pages in Aneli’s booklet

Elodiecasa Dragovar is also a new artist for me. She’s in Second Life since 2010. Art is part of her life, she started getting lessons in art aged 9. Since 13 years Elodiecasa lives in Morocco. In the accompanying notecard as well as on a board in her skybox at La maison d’Aneli she wrote about herself: “I don’t consider myself as an artist but a passionate person. I love art in all forms, I touch everything. Art is a part of my life, it’s a need“

Her skybox is quite packed with pictures. All of them are imported into Second Life from RL pictures as far as I could gather. Elodiecasa uses all kind of techniques for her art and thus we get a broad picture of her artwork, which ranges from abstract alcohol ink pictures to acrylic portraits, from watercolour pictures of villages to abstract oil pictures. The variety is impressive and I couldn’t categorize her art at all.

Elodiecasa Dragovar’s pages in Aneli’s booklet

Deyanira Yalin has been in Second Life since 2007. Her creations started with oils and acrylics shown at exhibitions in Mexico City, and has continuously expanded to incorporate other media: “As a graphic designer, the influence of Second Life has help me to embrace the digital art form, which culminated in several exhibits currently displayed in Second Life. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I believe that my art is the product of cumulative dreams and visualization.” (taken from the accompanying notecard)

Deyanira Yalin’s skybox at La Maison d’Aneli is a dark blue box with a 3D object in the center. Her pictures glow colourful in this environment. They range from animal faces over geometric forms, from portraits to flowers. Deyanira often uses different layers in her pictures so that you have to immerse into her art.
Deyanira has an own gallery in Second life and a store “DeyLyn Creations” on the marketplace,

Deyanira Yalin’s pages in Aneli’s booklet

Neel (lo01ner01) is in Second Life for 4 years.
“Neel was born in the Himalayan foothills of India but now lives in the vast city of Mumbai. He is a passionate animal lover and cares greatly for the earth and all its creatures. A university graduate trained in business, Neel is also a student of poetry, art and literature in Hindi, English and Sanskrit. But he is especially interested in science. He combines abstract painting with imaginative birds, insects, and fish. Thus Neel explores the inner world of emotions and feelings, and how they connect to the natural world around us. His work draws on observation of the fine detail of the natural world together with an inner vision, which he paints as he sees with the eye of the spirit.” (from the accompanying notecard)

Neel (lo01ner01)’s skybox at La Maison d’Aneli is a light 2 story box held in white. His pictures are shown on the walls. Some pictures are abstract, others are a combination of abstract pictures with objects as described in the notecard. All of them seem to be RL pictures that were uploaded into Second Life.

lo01ner01’s pages in Aneli’s booklet

Mareea Farrasco is “a SL photographer and the owner of IMAGO Land and IMAGO Art Galleries, a Nature, Art & Culture area open for visitors who love to explore, relax, take photos or admire the highly talented artists works displayed in the galleries… My photography covers a large field, from portraits to landscapes, from concrete to metaphoric images, from narrative scenes to still life pictures.” (from the accompanying notecard)
I visited IMAGO Land in April 21 and reported about my visit (read here)

Mareea’s skybox at La Maison d’Aneli is complete held in black in order to provide a contrast to pastel colours of her photographs, that mainly show landscapes along with only few details. I don’t know (but suspect) that Mareea porcesses her pictures a bit to make them a little bit blurry, which fits perfectly (no critique meant). Mareea proves the almost endless possibilities that Second Life offers for our creativity.
Mareea Farrasco’s pictures can also been seen at her flickr account.

Mareea Farrasco’s pages in Aneli’s booklet

La Maison d’Aneli is owned by Aneli Abeyante. Through her gallery she brings together all forms of creativity in RL and SL and the featured artists come from around the globe. Aneli’s intention is to “put her gallery in the service of artists, so that the world can be better, exchanges and meetings probably contribute even though it seems to be particles.”
Thank you for another great joined exhibtion, Aneli. As always I enjoyed my visit and writing about it. It inspired me.

Landmark to La Maison d’Aneli
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Virtual%20Holland/23/64/22
Fly Kugin (flyqueeen)’s website
https://www.flyofficial.org/
Fly Kugin (flyqueeen)’s flickr
https://www.flickr.com/photos/134260978@N05/
Giovanna Cerise’s website
http://giovannacerise.blogspot.it/
Deyanira Yalin’s gallery
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Fortinbras/20/198/27
Deyanira Yalin marketplace store “DeyLyn Creations”
https://marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/167933
Landmark to Mareea Farrasco’a IMAGO Land
https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Broken%20Mountain/86/132/21
Mareea Farrasco’s flickr
https://www.flickr.com/photos/96165669@N06/

Diary 2021 (93) July 14th / 15th Two quiet days

28 Jul 2021 Leave a comment

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Wednesday, July 14th, I went online in the morning and to my surprise met Mistress Jenny. She took me to Dommes in Distress and removed her skirt to get her pleasure and to provide my fix. Unfortunately my RL kicked in and – already aroused – I had to go afk. It took longer that I thought and upon my return Mistress had to leave *sighs*. We returned home and to my suprise Mistress unlocked my pumps and allowed me free choice of clothing. I still fail to predict Mistress Jenny’s decisions. Then Mistress and I logged off.

July 14th: Mistress Jenny being served by Ehesklavin Diomita at Dommes in Distress

I met Mistress again in the afternoon for 2 hours. Mistress allowed me to lick her first thing and she and I enjoyed it. And I got a double dose of my fix. Thank you, Mistress. That was a nice start into the afternoon. We spent the rest of our time together at club Domme a Domme and Puerto Esclava, nothing exciting happened though.
After Mistress had left to turn to her RL, I spend some more time at Puerto Esclava. Slave Holly came inworld and I visited her at Psi’s realm before I had to leave myself.

July 14th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at home, at club Domme a Domme and at Puerto Esclava / Diomita and slave Holly at Psi’s realm

Mistress Jenny was not inworld at night. I played a skipee with Flo first. Then we went to Psi’s realm where slave Holly was still tied up. I had intended to stay there but nothing was going on at Psi’s realm that night and hence I released slave Holly from the chains and took her and Flo to Carnal Intentions. There we had at least some eye candy. Yet, also at Carnal it was abnormally quiet. After half an hour we returned home and played another skipee.

July 14th: Diomita with Flo and slave Holly at Carnal Intentions / Diomita and slave Holly at home

Flo went to bed after the game and I took slave Holly with me to the bathroom. I had an extended peeing session with her and allowed her to rub herself against my foot afterwards. I do spoil her *winks*.

I had a busy day on Thursday, July 15th. Nonetheless I could meet with Mistress Jenny in the later afternoon and we had time to catch up with our mutual news at Puerto Esclava.

July 15th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at Puerto Esclava / Diomita at Carnal Intentions with slave Holly and Elena

My night was relaxed. slave Holly came inworld right in time as I had to pee. I took her to Carnal Intentions later where Elena (Elenaslv Serenity) joined us. We chatted mostly amoung us as not much was going on at the club. I returned home with slave Holly at midnight, roamed around another half hour and went off to bed.

Addendum: slave Holly sent me a few pictures of her at Psi’s realm, of her rubbing herself at my feet and of her doing her cleaning chores. I had left slave Holly with quite heavy vision restrictions to make her cleaning chores a bit harder. She had to find the spots to clean just from her memory – not that easy. But a slave’s life mustn’t be easy, as opposed to I had fun knowing that it was hard for her. Am I mean? well, sometimes a little bit *winks*

July 14th/15h: slave Holly at Psi’s realm / at home with Diomita / doing her cleaning chores

Enjoying Bondage July 2021 Dr. Thight’s latex suits

27 Jul 2021 Leave a comment

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For this month’s Enjoying Bondage Picture I selected a picture from my green light on July 4th as base. I shows Mistress Jenny nicely tied up on a torture rack and me next to her. I added Angelique supervising the scene on the left side. On the floor under Mistress Jenny I added slave Melissa. The picture of her was taken on June 26th at Psi’s realm.
In the center of the picture is Flo, or more precisely are 4 Flo’s. We had Flo in a tight latex suit with helmet, neck corsage and armbinder in June and may. It is an outfit, that was recommended by Dr. Tight (read the diary post 2021 (81)) for more information. Dr. Tight recommended several suits in different colours and the picture shows a few of them, worn by Flo. On the right side I added myself with our suspended slave Holly from a scene of July 1st. And that’s it: Enjoying Bondage July 2021 Dr. Thight’s latex suits

Enjoying Bondage July 2021 Dr. Thight’s latex suits (from left to right). Angelique, Diomita, Mistress Jenny, slave Melissa, four times Flo, slave Holly, Diomita

Diary 2021 (92) July 11th – 13th The slave collar / slave Holly’s reward

26 Jul 2021 Leave a comment

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Sunday, July 11th, I met with Mistress Jenny in the afternoon. She was at Heavy Bondage Club and we caught up with our mutual news there. Then Mistress went to the DHB store with me – looking for something she said. I had a look around, then Mistress called me to her and bought lockable heels for me.
We went to our loft skybox, where I unpacked the gift and tried them on. Mistress locked the heels and exchanged my sub collar with the slave collar. To be honest, I hadn’t expected that. Anyway, nothing I can do about it. As Mistress has the attitude that slave may wear no shoes or ballet boots, she got these lockable heels for me. She will accept them.
Back in my slave collar we went to Puerto Esclava for another 30 minutes and had some chats there until Mistress Jenny had to leave to tend to her RL. I myself roamed a bit, then I changed and spent some time at Heavy Bondage Club before I logged off myself.

Our night started with a team skipee. It was not that close as the night before but we had fun and Flo and I won it again. We went to Carnal Intentions after the skipee. It became another quiet night there but we had some RL entertainment as we watch the Football final between England and Italy simultaneously.

July 11th: Mistress Jenny, Diomita and Angelique with Flo at Carnal Intentions

Monday, July 12th, I was inworld in the afternoon for a bit and roamed. Mistress Jenny was not present during the day. At club Domme a Domme I met Lily Bloodrose, who decorated me until I had to leave again.
I returned before dinner and went visiting a gallery quickly, then I had a chat at Heavy Bondage Club with an acquaintance.

At night I met with Mistress Jenny. slave Holly was inworld and we took her to Carnal Intentions. We caught up with our mutual news, chatted with slave and relaxed. When slave Flo came inworld late, we returned home and played a skipee as teams. slave Holly and I won it. It was already past flot time and as Mistress Jenny had an early start the next day, we called it a night.

July 12th: Diomita with Lily Bloodrose at club Domme a Domme / Mistress Jenny and Diomita at Carnal Intentions withs slave Holly

On Tuesday, July 13th, Mistress Jenny was not inworld during the day. I was inworld erratically during the day and often absent. Yet I also had some chats, and even a little roleplay (no, nothing happened). I was about to leave for dinner, when slave Holly came inworld. She had cleaned the house already in the morning and she did all of her other chores. Her obedience and dedication pleases Mistress Jenny and me. I decided to reward slave Holly and took her to Psi’s realm where I tied her up completely, gagged and blindfolded her and left her in her arousal .. who may spank her? I couldn’t see the tag that I added “Maurer’s horny slave slut – feel free to slap”

July 13th: Diomita and slave Holly at Psi’s realm

At night Mistress Jenny and I played a skipee with Flo first and caught up with our mutual news while we were playing. After the game we went to Psi’s realm with Flo. It was nicely crowded at Psi’s and there was some mainchat going on too. slave Holly showed up inworld while we were at Psi’s realm and of course we teased her. Gina (Gina Lytham) approached us, praising Flo’s strict suit. She seemed to be eager to swap places with Flo (or slave Holly?) but of course she denied it. Without further ado I took advantage of her accessible open collar and made her a seat for Mistress Jenny, who was happy to sit down after a long day.

July 13th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at Psi’s realm with Flo and slave Holly

Flo left at flotime and we stayed at Psi’s realm until midnight. We left slave Holly at Psi’s realm….

July 13th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at Psi’s realm with Flo, slave Holly and Gina (Gina Lytham) as Mistress’ chair

Art in Second Life 2021 (67) Fragments by Melusina Parkin

25 Jul 2021 Leave a comment

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I got an invitation to “Fragments” by Melusina Parkin, an exhibtion shown on a seperate platform of Milena’s Carbone Gallery @ Serena.

For the exhibtion “Fragments” Melusina Parkin and Milena Carbone have cooperated for the first time. Milena composed the texts, each piece inspired by one of Melusina’s images. Pieces of sentences that, put together, constitute an absurd story, but a coherent whole, like a journey of human life.

Together with the invitation I got a bunch of information. I have visited quite some exhibtions of both artists.
Melusina Parkin’s photos tend towards minimalism, which is Melu’s main inclination: simple details from daily life or usual landscapes are the subject of mostly empty scenes, stressing voids, space, geometries, lights; this reveals hidden meanings or pushes the observer to give them her/his own one. Her favorite subjects are wide landscapes, city views, industrial environments, popular lifestyles and daily objects.

“Fragments” by Melusina Parkin @ The Carbone Gallery

Melusina wrote:
“The image belongs to the observer. I agree with this statement made by the recent semiology and art critics. The reasons that an artist takes a photograph or paints a picture – or is compelled to do that – aren’t the same as those that open the observers’ way to find a meaning in them. Images are just incentives to seek unconsciously in our mind a memory, a meaning, a feeling we saved into the cells of our brain, codified by a mysterious chemical language. More ambiguous images are deeper and can evoke more complex thoughts or feelings.

My photos try to offer these “links” to the observers’ minds by representing simplified, “incomplete” images. Lonely places, empty rooms, absences, silent, still, small details that we usually neglect, when shown in a large size photo can have that power. Fragments of the outer world we live in take to fragments of our inner one.

Examples of “Fragments” by Melusina Parkin with texts from Milena Carbone (1)

When Milena proposed that I show my photos at her new gallery, paired with her written reflections on them, I was curious to know what kind of thoughts they would stimulate. The result of her careful observation has been stunning: her texts reveal even the most private sides of her soul, starting from pictures that don’t belong to her past life, but are linked to her own mind’s archive by multiple hooks : so she tells her stories about an object or a landscape, or even about a color, or a light, and those stories compose a portrait showing something placed between memory, reality, imagination, dream and abstract thought.
I wish that my images could have the same effect on visitors’ souls. No other aim would be more enticing for a photographer.“

Examples of “Fragments” by Melusina Parkin with texts from Milena Carbone (2)

The exhibtion consists of two parts – outside and inside. The provided landmark leads to the outside area. Melusina Parker’s pictures are featured on big single boards under the open sky. Chairs are placed in front of the boards so that you can sit down and look at the single pictures. A paved walkway leads you to a center screen, which shows the pictures one after the other in a slideshow – together with the texts, that Milena Carbone wrote.

As you walk along the paved walkway, you can read another accompanying text on the paving stones:
“My life is straight as a road through the desert, and this road never stops, it goes straight in circles, it ticks off the numer that never ends. If this desert were alive, my road would be twisty, facetious, chaotic and unexpected. But wem the human species, have sterilized and flattened the earth to satisfy our appetite for perfection, geometry, purity. And all of this, now, is boring like a gray day at the office. Boring and tiring. I am sitting on the bench, exhausted and sad. Here, a circle will never be perfect, Everything we see from the outside is a story. Your life, my life, our life are fragments of stories, nothing is true, nothing is holy.“

Examples of “Fragments” by Melusina Parkin with texts from Milena Carbone (3)

Milena Carbone’s texts are created using automatic writing, a surrealist technique. They are initially extracted from independent stories, sometimes autobiographical, often imaginary. Subsequently, they are reworked so that each text is linked to one or more other texts by common images, symbols or sensations.

The inside area contains what might be the other half of the pictures in a traditional gallery. In the center of the inside area you find a bookstore. Those who are regular visitors to Melusina Parkin’s exhibitions know these books already:
Melusina All-in-One Exhibits allow you to keep at home the whole exhibit you visited and loved. It’s an alternative kind of the exhibit catalogue – you can hang the object on your home’s walls and enjoy the changing images.
They come in four versions, that you can choose according to your home style: plain or framed, changing image by touch or in random loop. The objects are set as modifiable, so you can adapt them to your walls.

“Fragments” by Melusina Parkin @ The Carbone Gallery – inside area with bookstore

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.
Milena Carbone currently curates three own galleries: The Carbone Gallery, The Carbone Gallery @ Noir’Wen City, and The Carbone Gallery @ Serena. You can follow her on flickr and you can read some of her texts on Medium.

Melusina Parkin is in Second Life since September 2008. She has been a fashion manager, a journalist, a furniture creator, a builder, a decorator and a photographer. Her work as a photographer has been showcased in more than 50 exhibitions – from which I saw just a few. Melusina has an own gallery, an own store for Art Deco furniture “Melu Deco“, Melusina has a flickr account which counts more than 13,000 (!) photographs. Extensive collections of her photos can be seen also on her blog Virtual Exhibits and on some slideshows on Youtube (links under this post).

Thank you both, Milena Carbone and Melusina Parkin for a this cooperative work, for a perfect combination of images and texts. My visit to “Fragments” was touching and inspiring – a great exhibition!

Landmark to Fragments by Melusina Parkin
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Serena%20Pontypridd/145/82/2071
The Carbone Gallery
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Woiler/172/158/3316
The Carbone Gallery @ Noir’Wen City
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Noir%20Wen/243/203/32
The Carbone Gallery @ Serena
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Serena%20Pontypridd/69/182/22
Milena Carbone’s flickr
https://www.flickr.com/photos/milenacarbone/
Milena Carbone’s texts
https://medium.com/@539568
Landmark to Melusina Photo Gallery
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Time%20Portal/248/101/1940
Landmark to Melusina Parkin’s store for Art Deco furniture “Melu Deco”
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Time%20Portal/243/99/1930
Melusina Parker’s flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/melusina_parkin/
Melusina Parkin’s Virtual Exhibit blog
http://meluphoto.blogspot.it/p/home.html
On line book Second Life exhibits 2011-2019
https://www.calameo.com/books/005997622f28dd58ca75d
Melusina Parkin’s youtube channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVzglBiqhrOLXnAp3Qt3Zjw

Diary 2021 (91) July 9th/10th Diomita’s penance

24 Jul 2021 Leave a comment

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

When I went inworld Friday morning, July 9th, Mistress Jenny was just about leaving. But we could at least catch up quickly and hug each other. After Mistress had left, I went to Puerto Esclava, stayed there for a while and chatted in IM with our Kitty. Kitty is doing well and has fun. So all is fine with her. slave Holly came inworld right in time as I had to pee. So her day began with getting some of my particularly spicy morning pee *winks*.
After this little scene I left SL again and tended to my RL. I returned after lunch and was lucky once again, as Mistress Jenny came inworld soon after me. We went to Heavy Bondage Club and stayed there for about an hour. Mistress Jenny had a longer chat with slave N (naahdia) who was seeking getting under our wings again. Nothing else happened during this hour and Mistress Jenny had to leave again – and I once again tended to my RL as well.
I returned about one hour later and actually met slave N at Puerto Esclava by accident. She was naked and her body covered with whip marks. And she begged to get under my control. I had mercy with her, took her home and took control of her. slave N told me that she had to leave for RL and hence I decided to lock her away in a glass cage at home in order to continue after her return. Then all of a sudden for me, she complained that I wouldn’t listen to her, she would have conditions for being enslaved like being dressed as a maid and she complained that I’d locked her naked. Long story short, I released control, opened her cage and left. her complains in IM continued and I was really close to shut her up, but I didn’t. Enough ranted, that was spoiled time.
I returned inworld once again in the later afternoon and had a nice little session with a nun, who forced me to confess my sins and who assigned a penance of 15 lashes on my behind with her whip. That was a fun roleplay.

July 9th: Diomita and slave Holly at home / Mistress Jenny and Diomita at Heavy Bondage Club / Diomita’s penance

At night we had our regular party again. Mistress Jenny and I had fixed a theme the day before: “The flowers are blooming, the bees are busy, let us celebrate another Friday and wear something in black and yellow, or come just as you are ..or naked.. and let’s enjoy music, chat and banter. DJ Virgo is spinning the tunes.”

It was a great night, a party to remember, although we had a comparably small turn-out. Everybody wore something bee-ish in yellow and black. Claire came naked, Jayson wore particular see through briefs *coughs*, Elena wore a bee gown, Angelique created another great outfit, Baroness wore black but yellow glasses. And Virgo rezzed a ridable bee in the center of the dancefloor – and Ebony accepted the challenge of a ride. We had quite some main chat and a lot of fun. Thank you Virgo for the great music again!

July 9th – Friday night party: Ebony Massey riding the bee, Mistress Jenny, Diomita, Angelique, Elenaslv serenity, Flo, Ebony Massey (upper row), Starbright Wingtips, Sara (SaraRandall), Firefly (MissMachine Dakota), Della Randt, Jayson Dakota, Claire (maddh4tt3r), Baroness Capelo, Virgo Babii (lower row)

Saturday, July 10th, I spent a lot of time inworld. I logged in in the later morning to go on a short simploring art tour. It turned out to become more like a project. I had seen what might be about 20% of the place after almost one hour. Mistress Jenny came inworld and I stopped simploring. We went to Puerto Esclava and caught up with our mutual news there. Mistress Jenny intends to have a weekend seeking trouble, so she locked my cuffs with keys out and was wearing her police collar. Yet nothing happened while we were at Puerto Esclava and I had to leave after half an hour to tend to my RL.
I returned after lunch and continued my art simploring. It took me another 2 hours, then I had at least seen the most of the place. I had fun and took tons of pictures. Shortly after I had returned home, Mistress Jenny came inworld again and once again we went to Puerto Esclava. It was full there and what happens really rarely – there was a discussion ongoing. The subject was old, how to force a sub or slave to stay in RLV. For Mistress Jenny and myself it is pretty simple and clear: you can’t hold back people who want to leave. And leaving RLV without an owner’s permission is cheating yourself, spoiling your own fun. But nonetheless it was entertaining to follow the discussion.
There were two other women at Puerto Esclava with who I had played (as a sub) before. Mistress Jenny had fun teasing me and I shared with her what was going on. Mistress Jenny always knows, when, what and with who I play. After one hour Mistress left to tend to her RL and she left me at Puerto Esclava. I thought I could leave myself but one of my contacts decided to have a session with me. That kept me busy until I had to leave for dinner. What a day inworld! (No, i won’t disclose who it was and what happened)

July 10th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at Puerto Esclava

Our night was relaxed. We played a skipee with Angelique and Flo first. It was a very close game, hence one that was fun. Afterwards we went to Carnal Intentions with Angelique and Flo. It was quiet there as anywhere, not unusal for a Saturday night. Hence we were mostly amoung us.

July 10th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at Carnal Intentions with Angelique and FLo and at Dark Butterfly and club Domme a Domme

After Flo and Angelique had left Mistress Jenny and I went to Puerot Esclava, to Dark Butterfly and to club Domme a Domme seeking some trouble that we didn’t find.

Art in Second Life 2021 (66) Manet 3D by Red Bikcin

23 Jul 2021 Leave a comment

by diomitamaurer in Art in Second Life Tags: , ,

I saw Red Bikcin’s art before, the last time in 2020 at La Maison d’Aneli (read here). Actually one of her pictures is at our home. So far what I saw from Red Bikcin were animated geometric forms or fractals, always colourful, always something to watch for longer as it changes regularly.

Redi (Red Bikcin) sent me an invitation to her latest exhibtion “Manet 3D” and the poster did not fit at all to what I saw so far from Redi. Hence I had a look on Monday July 12th.
“Manet 3D” is exactly what the name implies. Pictures from Manet in three dimensions. That is of course hard to capture in 2D pictures. Each of the 9 pictures of Redi is in a box with the main object in the front and one or more layers behind. If you look at them frontal, it is a 2D picture, if you look from aside you see the different layers and the picture changes.

Impressions of “Manet 3D” by Red Bikcin (1)

Redi added a third dimension to Manet’s paintings. She worked with the orignal pictures and cutted out some parts to get the 3D effect (NO, of course she worked with digital copies or photographs of the orginals *winks*).

Impressions of “Manet 3D” by Red Bikcin (2)

Red Bikcin is from Spain and in Second Life for more than 14 years. She has her own gallery, the R&D Art Gallery Diotima.

Landmark to Manet 3D by Red Bikcin
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Gigli%20Waves/147/249/1944
Red Bikcin’s R&D Art Gallery Diotima
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Gigli%20Waves/156/241/41

Diary 2021 (90) July 6th-8th Three quiet and relaxed days

22 Jul 2021 Leave a comment

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

Tuesday, July 6th, Mistress Jenny and I spent a quite eventless hour in the afternoon together. We were at club Domme a Domme and at Heavy Bondage club, reading profiles and enjoying just being together. Nothing notable happened. Shortly before we hat to leave Lily Bloodrose came to us and knelt at our feet to decorate us. But that’s all.

July 6th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at club Domme a Domme and at Heavy Bondage Club with Lily Bloodrose

We had an entertaining night. First we played a skipee with Flo, then we went to Carnal Intentions with Flo and met Elena there. later slave Holly joined us. It was one ot the rare night where we had main chat, just chit chat and teasing all subs/slaves. And finally we also watched football in the background and added that in the chat and slave Holly’s butt was used to count the penalties. Just silly fun.

July 6th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at Carnal Intentions with Elena, Flo and slave Holly

Wednesday, July 7th, Mistress and I spent our time together in the afternoon roaming. We stayed at Puerot Esclav, club Domme a Domme and Heavy Bondage Club. Again we just enjoyed being together and as it pleases Mistress Jenny, I knelt for her at Heavy Bondage Club.

July 7th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at Puerto esclava, club Domme a Domme and at Heavy Bondage Club

We had another comparably quiet night. Mistress Jenny and I went to Carnal Intentions as none of our family was present when we got inworld. We summoned slave Holly and Flo to us when they came online. We just chatted and watched and caught up with Flo and Holly. In the background Mistress and I watched football, the English team was playing that night. After a while we decided to return home and to play a skipee as team with Flo and slave Holly. This time slave Holly and I won it.

July 7th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at Carnal Intentions with Flo and slave Holly

Thursday, July 8th, I met Mistress unplanned in the morning and we spent almost an hour together at various places. I was inworld a lot during the day, doing chores in RL, reading and watching TV while I was inworld. I hopped between the clubs and places, stayed here and there and had a few, unfortunately harmless, roleplays. Mistress was busy during the day and didn’t show up again. Hence nothing to report in here.

At night I played a skipee with Flo, Angelique joined us later and we went to Carnal Intentions. When slave Holly came inworld I summoned her to us. And later, Angelique had already left for bed, Mistress Jenny joined us.

July 8th: Mistress jenny and Diomita at Psi’s realm / Mistress Jenny and Diomita at Carnal Intentions with Angeliuqe, Flo and slave Holly

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