Backflash August 2021 – “New slave midsummer outfit” (August 2016)

31 Aug 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 August 2021 I scrolled back 5 years and selected a little series of post from August 2016: “New slave midsummer outfit”.

Enjoy reading!

New slave midsummer outfit (Aug 3rd, 2016)

Monday, August 1st, we began to fit our slaves into their new midsummer outfit. It is according to midsummer something very little – a naughty harness colourable in 100 different colours and reveals the slave’s breasts and pussies. We added a RR armbinder and just to be prepared for any misbehaving a RR ringgag. That’s it – simple and sexy. slave Nina and slave cecy were the first who were put in their next outfit. When we were done and satisfied with their appearance Mistress Jenny and I took the slaves to Mesmerize Dungeon to expose them.

August 1st: Diomita and slave Nina in her midsummer oufit at MD

August 1st: Diomita and slave Nina in her midsummer outfit at MD

August 1st: Mistress Jenny and Diomita exposing slave Nina and slave cecy in their midsummer oufit at MD

August 1st: Mistress Jenny and Diomita exposing slave Nina and slave cecy in their midsummer outfit at MD

New slave midsummer outfit (2) (Aug 4th, 2016)

Tuesday, August 2nd, we put slave Flo in her new midsummer outfit. She choosed yellow and that’s quite outstanding. Pauline asked to joined and for her we selected a green harness. So far the slaves are yellow (Flo), cyan (cecy), red (Nina) and green (Pauline). Should we call them by their colours? At least a nice idea, isn’t it? After fitting the new outfit we took the the yellow, the cyan and the green slave to Lochme and enjoyed some chatting and banter.

August 2nd: Mistress Jenny and Diomita with the yellow, cyan and green slave at Lochme

August 2nd: Mistress Jenny and Diomita with the yellow, cyan and green slave at Lochme

Some more colours to come ….

New slave midsummer outfit (3) (Aug 5th, 2016)

When slave Adarra came online Wednesday night (August 3rd) she was the next slave to be fitted into the midsummer outfit. She choose blue.

August 3rd - at home: Mistress Jenny, slaves red, cyan, yellow, Diomita and slave blue

August 3rd – at home: Mistress Jenny, slaves red, cyan, yellow, Diomita and slave blue

We went to The Secret House that night and had a nice chat. slave blue did enhance the new outfit creating a little tattoo for the cleavage with two “Maurer roses” and the letter “M”. If you take a closer look at the tattoo inworld you’ll notice the roses do have 4 thorns each. So you can also consider them to symbolize Mistress Jenny and me and our 8 subs & slaves.

August 3rd - at TSH: slave red, Diomita, slave yellow, slave blue, slave cyan and Mistress Jenny

August 3rd – at TSH: slave red, Diomita, slave yellow, slave blue, slave cyan and Mistress Jenny

New slave midsummer outfit (4) (Aug 6th, 2016)

It looks as if the slaves have a little conspiracy. They show up one after the other each night. On Thursday night (August 4th) it was slavin C who was fitted into her midsummer outfit. This time I choose for her as I got used to have her in pink. So she became slavin pink. After she was dressed I put out three kinky cushions fitting in colour with the three present slaves yellow, cyan and pink. While Mistress Jenny and I cuddled on the bench we watched the slaves riding the dildos with increasing lust.

August 4th: slaves yellow, cyan and pink enjoying the kinky cushions while Mistress and I cuddle

August 4th: slaves yellow, cyan and pink enjoying the kinky cushions while Mistress and I cuddle

Later we went to Mesmerize dungeon for the slaves to cool down after riding the dildo’s and for chatting. We met slave L there who you might remember from last year where she joined some bondage fun. She makes a contrast to our slaves.

August 4th at MD: slave L, Diomita, slave pink, Mistress Jenny, slave yellow and slave cyan

August 4th at MD: slave L, Diomita, slave pink, Mistress Jenny, slave yellow and slave cyan

August 4th at MD - a backside view: slave cyan, Mistress Jenny, slave Flo (saying good night), slave pink, Diomita and slave L

August 4th at MD – a backside view: slave cyan, Mistress Jenny, slave Flo (saying good night), slave pink, Diomita and slave L

Now just one slave is missing to be put into her midsummer oufit, sklavin Gebby…..

Links to the original posts
New slave midsummer outfit (Aug 3rd, 2016)
https://themaurers.me/2016/08/03/new-slave-midsummer-outfit/
New slave midsummer outfit (2) (Aug 4th, 2016)
https://themaurers.me/2016/08/04/new-slave-midsummer-outfit-2/
New slave midsummer outfit (3) (Aug 5th, 2016)
https://themaurers.me/2016/08/05/new-slave-midsummer-outfit-3/
New slave midsummer outfit (4) (Aug 6th, 2016)
https://themaurers.me/2016/08/06/new-slave-midsummer-outfit-4/

Enjoying Bondage August 2021 – Submission

30 Aug 2021 Leave a comment

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This month’s Enjoying Bondage picture reflects our activies in during the first 2 weeks in August. The main picture was taken at Carnal Intentions on August 11th showing Mistress Jenny with slave Faye at her leash and Diomita with slave Holly at her leash. Both slaves are in a very submissive phase. Faye had asked be be taken deeper into submission and Mistress Jenny and I will lead her deeper. slave Holly had quite an intense night that day and was absolutely focused on me.
But there’s more. First of all I added myself kneeling at Mistress Jenny’s other side. I took myself from a picture of Mistress Jenny and me at club Domme a Domme on August 4th. Actually Mistress had guided me even deeper into submission to her with my last red light – and I had to add me in this pose to reflect what happened in August.
And if you look at the details you will notice that I added myself spanking slave Faye from a session on August 12th.
Last but not least the picture also presents Mistress Jenny’s new style – I love it! Mistress further improvement motivated me to play with my hair and makeup as well, hence you see me in two different styles in the picture. Well and that’s it: Enjoying Bondage August 2021 – Submission

Enjoying Bondage August 2021 – Submission: (from left to right) slave Holly, Diomita, Diomita spanking slave Faye (in the picture frame), Diomita (kneeling), Mistress Jenny and slave Faye

Diary 2021 (109) August 16th/17th Back in control

29 Aug 2021 Leave a comment

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Monday, August 16th, I met with Mistress Jenny in the afternoon. As soon as we had caught up with our mutual news, I took control of my Mistress wife. She had granted a green light a couple of days before and the time had come. I took Jenny to my appendix of our skybox and had her kneel. I locked her cuffs, gagged her with a ringgag and of course I made her shance her hairstyle. I can tell that changing the hairstyle has an effect – at least on me. I see Jenny way more as my property when she wear her short haircut – and it is the apparent sign that I’m in control. I went buying another RemVision and took Jenny to our loft skybox where I mad her wear the RemVision and locked it. Hence Jenny had her personal extra show.

We went to cub Domme a Domme next. Of course I wanted to expose Jenny as my property but I was really more than surprised that she got that much attention. Her kneeling to me was the subject of the main chat and I got quite some IMs about Jenny. we stayed the rest of the afternoon at club Domme a Domme. When we had to leave to tend to our RL I took Jenny to our secret place and leashed her there, ready for me to pick her up for my fun.

August 16th – back in control: Diomita and Jenny at home and at club Domme a Domme

I met Jenny early at night and we had some time together. I made the most of it after Jenny asked me nicely to be allowed to lick me. How could I reject such an offer!! Nothing compares to her tongue and knowledge of me. I enjoyed.

August 16th – back in control: Diomita and Jenny at home

Flow was inworld and we met her at the skipee table. We had one game with Flo (Jenny won it, I just held cards). While we played, Angelique, slave Holly and Alessi joined us at the table. Alessi hadn’t spent time with us for many weeks, but she had been cleaning our house every once in a while.
slave Holly sent me a snapshot from earlier that day when she was cleaning and talking with Alessi – a real good picture.

After the game we all went to Psi’s realm and spent the night there. It was entertaining regarding the main chat as well as the IMs we had amoung us. slave Holly is still wearing the RemVision and I spoiled her be uploading a new set of slides. slave Faye joined us shortly before we had to retreat because …. time ran by way to quick as we were having fun.

August 16th: slave Holly cleaning (upper left) / Diomita and Jenny at home and at Psi’s eralm with Alessi, Flo, Angelique, slave Faye and slave Holly (lower left was taken by slave Holly)

Tuesday, August 17th, I took my property to Heavy Bondage Club in the afternoon. I had gagged and locked her up before and she had a restricted view, focused on me. Acutually I also added lenses that made her look as if she would stare into the void.

August 17th: Diomita and Jenny at Heavy Bondage Club (look at Jenny’s eyes, staring into the void)

After we had caught up with our mutual news, I decided spontaneously to visit an adult private place, a landmark that I had picked from a profile and a place I had been before once and remembered it as being worth to go there again. I made Jenny strip and fisxed her on one of the several racks there. I had no idea about the menu. It turned out being a rak with sex poses for M/f. Hence I took out my strapon and fucked my property hard. It’s good to be in control.

August 17th: Diomita and Jenny at a secret private place

After Jenny had recovered a bit, we tried out some other racks and finally I found what I was looking for. Jenny was still that wet, that I had to get my fix *winks*. And although I know about the effect of her sweet poison, I enjoyed licking my helpless wife.

August 17th: Diomita and Jenny at a secret place and at Puerto Esclava.

We went to Puerto Esclava for a few minutes, then our time in the afternoon was up again.

We had a quiet start into our night as none of the family was present at first. I was at Heavy Bondage CLub when Jenny came inworld and she joined me there. We staye quite some time there and I enjoyed having Jenny at my feet. After a while we moved on to club Domme a Domme. I summoned Faye to us when she came online.

August 17th: Diomita and Jenny at Heavy Bondage Club and at club Domme a Domme and at Carnal Intentions with Faye

As not much was going on at club Domme a Domme we went to Carnal Intentions. Elena was there and when slave Holly came inworld I summoned not only here but also Alessi who seems to desire to get closer to us (again). We were quite a big group and had fun chatting mostly amoung us.

August 17th: Diomita and Jenny at Carnal Intentions with slave Faye, slave Holly, Alessi and Elena

And that’s it about my first 2 days in control.

Art in Second Life 2010 (80) Milena Carbone – Untitled

28 Aug 2021 Leave a comment

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

Milena sent me a message on August 10th that she just had opened her newest exhibtion “Untitled” at her Carbone Gallery @ Noir’Wen City. She also sent me the link to the arcticle that she wrote about “Untitled” on her webpage.

I went there right away.
“Untitled” is the collection of pictures that Milena has offered her group members for free, one for each month since May 2020. And you still can get them for free if you join her group.
If I counted that correctly, then the exhibtion consists of 16 pictures.
Milena comments on her website and on several boards at the exhibition that “this period, up to July 2021, matches a phase of the maturity of a style composed of multiple layers of textures and real images.“

Impressions of “Untitled” by Milena Carbone (1)

“This style was the result of two confining beliefs: one that considered the graphic universe of Second Life as “inferior” to other current artistic graphic trends; the other one which avoided imitating an existing graphic style, classic or current.
When we lock ourselves in beliefs, although the results can have successful aspects, they come with too much effort, without real fulfillment.”

Impressions of “Untitled” by Milena Carbone (2)

Impressions of “Untitled” by Milena Carbone (3)

I for my part like these pictures a lot. The different layers provide depth and room for interpretation, they are intriguing because they are a mixture of different media. Milena also comments that she had developed into a new style now:
“Today I accept the universe of Second Life as the raw material of my creations.I no longer try to disguise it anymore with texture layers and strong filters, as if shamefully to hide the origin of my images, but on the contrary to show with the maximum elegance possible its characteristics, by emphasizing its unique aesthetic. It is a minimalist work, but it is no less important. It is more subtle. While I loved the flamboyance of my first period, I now thrive on the delicacy of nuance and detail.
Beyond the style, meaning matters. The style that I inaugurate here reveals, more than ever, my attachment to symbolism and surrealism.“

There is just one picture that represents this new style of Milena, the group gift picture for August 2021. Both styles have their own facination and I won’t say one is better or more artful than the other. Both have their temptations.

Impressions of “Untitled” by Milena Carbone (4) Fermata (August 2021)

Untitled by Milena Carbone is a fitting collection of some of Milena’s work during the last 1 1/2 year. Along with the comments of Milena this exhibtion also provides an insight into what the artist herself thinks about her work.

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 has her own galleries: the Carbone Gallery, the Carbone Gallery @ Noir’Wen City and the Carbone Gallery @ Serena. In addition she has an own website and a flickr page.

Website about the exhibition “Untitled”
https://sites.google.com/view/thecarbonegallery/exhibitions/untitled?authuser=0
Landmark to The Carbone Gallery @ Noir’Wen City – exhibition “Untitled”
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Noir%20Wen/243/217/32
Landmark to The Carbone gallery
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Woiler/172/158/3316
Landmark to The Carbone Gallery @ Serena
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Serena%20Pontypridd/69/182/22
Milena Carbone’s Flickr page
https://www.flickr.com/photos/milenacarbone/
Milena Carbone’s website
https://sites.google.com/view/thecarbonegallery/

Diary 2021 (108) August 14th/15th A relaxed and varied weekend

27 Aug 2021 Leave a comment

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Saturday, August 14th, I was inworld in the afternoon for about 1 1/2 hours. I knew that Mistress wouldn’t be back before we would meet at night. As none of the slaves was present, I went to Lochme and bought a “RemVision”, the newest product of Marine Kelley’s Real Restraints. We had talked about it the day before at our Friday night party. There’s a nice and very detailed manual on Marine’s Real Restrained blog. It is a bit like the AnaVision, a toy we used for playing with our slaves a lot. The difference is that you can also block hearing with earplugs and that in addition to the HUD, the eyes are covered behind a lense and you can create quite some effects with coloured or plain lenses. As for the HUD there are no masks and no texture exchanges but you can project particular SL films on the HUD or slideshows. There’s a lot of content included the package. So there’re quite some difference between the toys.
I tested the RemVision on myself and when I was done, slave Holly came inworld. I returned home and transferred my RemVision to her. Hence we would have something to play with at night. And secretly I planned to use it for the green light that Mistress Jenny had granted at the begin of the following week. slave Faye came home as well and I changed her hobble dress.
Then it was time for me to tend to my RL again and to make use of the fine weather we had that day (I forgot to take any pictures).

At night I first caught up with Mistress Jenny, who had returned from her short family trip. then we went seeing Flo and slave Holly and when slave Faye came inworld as well we played a greedy. Flo went off to bed after the greedy. She still needs time to recover.
We took slave Faye and slave Holly to Carnal Intentions, where we spent the rest of the night.

August 14th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at carnal Intentions with slave Faye and slave Holly

We chatted amoung us and we had some IMs. I played a bit with slave Holly’s remvision and got more familiar with it. Elena (Elenaslv Serenity) joined us also at Carnal Intentions. And as always time flies by when you’re having fun. As Mistress was tired from her trip we returned home just around midnight.

August 14th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at carnal Intentions with slave Faye, slave Holly and Elena

Sunday morning, I went inworld to check messages. I was lucky – Mistress Jenny was inworld. After we had quickly caught up, Mistress asked me what to do next and as I said, that I was up for everything, she decided that we should seek trouble. She added her elegance cuff set and I added mine as well. And just as we were ready to seek trouble, Kitty came inworld. We met her at Dee’s Cage Room.
I told Mistress Jenny and Kitty that I had got a an IM a few days before, telling me that Kitty was in danger as she was seen leaving Psi’s with the owner of Matriach. Honestly, I laughed. Kitty seeks troubles, Kitty finds trouble, and Kitty has fun – that is why we renamed her into Kitty T. Maurer. The T. stands for trouble.
Anyway I had had a look at Matriach but I couldn’t see much of trouble at all there.
Kitty told us that she got a tour there and hence we all went to Matriach and Kitty repeated the tour with us. In short, the place is a BDSM winery with all necessary equipment, even with a wine museum. The owner, Laura (Beautiful Vyper), got the whole process set up so that her slaves do all the work. She has a store where she sells not just wine but also many other things that she has created and scripted, including entire buildings. So the BDSM part is really in the interaction, not so much in cages or traps. We visited the whole place, at least the publicly accessible part.

August 15th: Mistress Jenny, Diomita and Kitty visiting Matriach and Lochme (lower right picture)

As we couldn’t find any trouble there we went to Lochme, but there was no trouble available as well. In addition my time inworld was more than up and hence we returned home.

I met Mistress again in the afternoon and we spent almost one hour at club Domme a domme together. We had no luck getting into any trouble. leaving our keys out didn’t help nor did leashing each other. Nonetheless we enjoyed some time together.

August 15th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita seeking trouble at club Domme a Domme

We had a nice and relaxed night. First Mistress and I spent a few minutes at Puerto Esclava, then we returned home and had a skipee as teams with Flo and slave Holly. It was a close game that Flo and I won in the end with a bit of luck. Flo went to bed after the game and Mistress and I took slave Holly to Carnal Intentions. I played all night with slave Holly’s RemVision getting more and more familiar with it. I asked her about the scenes she liked most and set her RemVision up to play just her favourites scenes. Time really flew by. slave Faye joined us later. We returned home at midnight and went off to bed.

August 15th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at Carnal Intentions with slave Holly and slave Faye / upper right shows slave Holly’s eyes and a snapshot of her view

Art in Second Life (79) Sandi Benelli at La Maison des Artistes

26 Aug 2021 Leave a comment

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

Michiel Bechir invited me to his newest place for the arts: La Maison des Artistes, an art café at the new French sim Le Village de Charente.

The current exhibition features a selection of pictures by Sandi Benelli, an artist I came across just once so far. Sandra Benelli’s pictures were showcased at Temprus – My Secret Garden in the “Art in the park” exhibtion in 2017 (read here).

Sandi Benelli is in Second Life since 2007. She’s one of those who found her RL love in the virtual environment of Second Life. Your can see her art also at her flickr account.
Sandi takes pictures of lovely spots in Second Life. I recognized some of them as I have been to these placces myself and even blogged about them. I think Sandi does process her pictures a little bit, but basically, these are pictures taken in Second Life, with the eye of an artist for the right angle and environment.

Impressions of Sandi Benelli at La Maison des Artistes (1) – Imago (upper left) / Walsh County (lower left)

The selection compromises 10 pictures and shows the little paradises we can see and create in Second Life. Sandi’s style reminded me of Michiel Bechir’s own style as Michel also takes his pictures directly in Second Life.

Impressions of Sandi Benelli at La Maison des Artistes (2) – Bella’s Lullaby (upper right) / Auld Lang Syne (lower right) / Nelipot (upper left) / Soul2Soul (lower left)

La Maison des Artistes is a small, nice space for the arts owned and curated by Michiel Bechir. Thank you Sandi for your pictures, and thank you Michel for providing the space for the arts.

Landmark to the art café “La Maison des Artistes”
France – le Village de Charente – Galerie
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Haks/69/74/23
Sandi Benelli’s flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sandibenelli/

Diary 2021 (107) August 12th/13th slave Holly and slave Faye

25 Aug 2021 Leave a comment

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Thursday, August 13th, I went inworld after lunch. I got a picture from slave Holly that she took the night before when she cleaned Mistress Jenny’s and my boots under the greedy table. It’s a quite good picture and hence I share it here, thank you slave Holly.

August 11th: slave Holly cleaning Mistress Jenny’s and Diomita’s boots under the greedy table

slave Faye came inworld soon after I had began to roam around a bit. I returned home and took her to our dungeon. She had to strip and then I fixed her on the whipping post and tried out different tools on her: the flogger, the paddle, the cane and the whip. I can tell that slave Faye enjoyed it – and I enjoyed it too. Unfortunately, slave Faye’s spanker doesn’t leave any marks and I asked slave Faye to get the spanker that slave Holly wears for us. That keeps the whipping marks for two days (with slave Holly’s settings). Furtheron I wanted a dress with exposed butt for slave Faye so that she can wear the marks with pride. I was about to take her out to KaS to get her an hobble dress, when Mistress Jenny logged in. She was not at home but visiting her family and would be around erratically the next days.
Mistress and I took slave Faye to KaS and she got the hobble dress and we watched her fitting it at home. Then Mistress Jenny had to leave to her RL and for me it was about time to tend to my RL as well.

August 12th: Diomita and slave Faye at home in our dungeon

I had an entertaining, varied night. First I played a skipee with Flo (Flo won), then I took Flo with me to Carnal Intentions. Soon after we arrived there, slave Holly came inworld and I summoned her to us … and slave Faye joined us soon after. I had fun teasing all three, with several restrictions, gags, blindfolds and such. Flo had to leave though to further recover.

August 12th: Diomita at Carnal Intentions with slave Flo, slave Holly and slave Faye

I tested the ass spankers and coloured the slave’s bums and I enjoyed. After quite some time I decided to move on with the slaves and I took them to Psi’s realm where I could rezz a piece of furniture, a dual slave post.

August 12th: Diomita at Carnal Intentions and at Psi’s realm with slave Holly and slave Faye

slave Holly made a lot of pictures while I simply enjoyed the view. The slaves did look just great on the post. And I think they enjoyed it *winks*. Anyway just three more pictures of this night – taken by slave Holly

August 12th: Diomita at Psi’s realm with slave Holly and slave Faye

Friday, August 13th, I had a quite busy day in RL. But I managed to get inworld several times during the day. slave Holly sent me a note and reported to me that the ass spanker has a setting for “whip, paddle, flogger, cane, …” and that this was the reason why her and Faye’s spanker looked that much different. There’s always something to learn *winks*. I roamed over the clubs, had a few chats – and I had a short good roleplay (no pictures). That was fun.
At night I was early and spent some time at Puerto Esclava. When slave Holly came inworld, I summoned her to me and we stayed at Puerto Esclava until we had to return home for the Friday night party.

August 13th: Diomita with slave holly at Puerto Esclava

The day before Mistress had proposed ot have a simple theme for our party and I had no better idea: “It’s Friday and we start into our weekend. Due to Covid many of us are taking holidays at home so wear your holiday finest and come to dance with us and to have fun, DJ Virgo is spinning the tunes“.
Of course we had fun as every Friday. Mistress Jenny joined us which was an extra bonus for me as we could catch up with our mutal news while dancing. It was also a particular night for slave holly, who is rarely inworld on weekends.

August 13th – Friday night party: Mistress jenny, Diomita, slave Holly, Flo, slave Faye, Elena (Elenaslv Serenity), Sun Boucher (Newlifeloading), Sarah Fhang, vero Hartmann (upper row), Della randt, Starbright Wingtips, Sara (SaraRandall), Luna Nebula, Dely Ebony (krysbia), Sabrina (ava1134), Sidonie Sewell, Baroness Capelo, Laura (Laura00175), Claven Albatros, Virgo Babii (lower row)

Art in Second Life 2021 (78) Conjure by Bamboo Barnes

24 Aug 2021 1 Comment

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

I visited the exhibition “Conjure” by Bamboo Barnes on the 2nd floor of the FOCUS Magazine F.A.I.R Gallery.

In her exhibtion “Conjure” Bammboo features about 10 different pictures on the 4 walls of the exhibition room. Each wall has a different focus. On one wall Bamboo plays with different presentations of one and the same portrait of a woman. The 3 pictures are framed in different colours. Above the picture Bamboo placed several additional frames erratically and these frames change their colour permanently. Watching the changes the 3 pictures do look different and the expression of them change. It’s quite intriguing. One wall is used for just one big abstract picture with a female portrait in the background shining through, colorful as all of Bamboo’s pictures are.

Impressions of “Conjure” by Bamboo Barnes (1)

Bamboo has designed a collage of her pictures on another wall. Three female portraits, along with frames and coloured squares. You can see her specific style as the pictures seem to consist of several layers printed which tampers the original portrait. It is still recognizable, but you have to immerse into the picture and add what you can’t see.

Impressions of “Conjure” by Bamboo Barnes (2)

The last wall features three pictures, again female portraits party highly tampered, resulting in a mixture of a portrait and an abstract painting. Finally there’s also something to watch in the center of the exhibtion room, 4 red vertical tubes – a female portrait sliding over the surface and vanishing.

 

Impressions of “Conjure” by Bamboo Barnes (3)

Once again Bamboo’s pictures facinate with their colours and the playful mixture of styles and techniques. Yet, Bamboo’s signature is recognizable in every picture.

Bamboo is in Second Life for over 14 years already, painting software & photoshop are her best friends. Bamboo had many exhibtions and appearances in the Second Life art scene and in 2018 she had her first exhibition in real life: “I create what I see but maybe you won’t, they are about people’s reality and  mind.” Bamboo’s art is a mixture of abstract forms, of people and photographs. Most pictures are colourful and it is in the eye of the beholder what we see in her pictures. I myself saw her work the first time at La Maison d’Aneli during the Holiday season 2019/2020 (read here). I also saw her exhibition “Marginal Mannerism” at DixMixGallery in April 2021 (read here) and the exhibition “Meant to be” at Itakos Art Gallery last year (read here). And I had a look at her flickr page.

Thank you all who enabled this exhibtion. I enjoyed my visit and seeing Bamboo’s art. The exhibition “Conjure” by Bamboo Barnes shall stay open until End of August.

Landmark to FOCUS Gallery FAIR Gallery – Conjure by Bamboo Barnes
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Holly%20Kai%20Estates/165/70/28
Bamboo Barnes’ flickr page
https://www.flickr.com/photos/bamboobarnes/

Diary 2021 (106) August 10th/11th Two quiet days with the slaves

23 Aug 2021 Leave a comment

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

On Tuesday, August 10th, I was a bit early for my meeting with Mistress Jenny and I tried to change my appearance a bit, the make-up and the hairstyle – and I changed into something latex again. I don’t know it the desired effect, looking a bit more strict and arrogant, was achieved, but Mistress told me sh’d like it. We went to Heavy Bondage Club where we caught up with our news, then Mistress was interrupted and logged off. I went to club DeLust where Mistress joined me later again. Faye was inworld and we summoned her to us. We intend to take her a bit closer to us and to push her a bit deeper into submission to us. And while we talked, I forgot to take any picture.
Our time together was up quickly again and Mistress and I we both had to tend to our RL again.

August 10th: Diomita’s slightly changed look / Mistress Jenny and Diomita at Heavy Bondage Club

Our night began quiet. Flo was present and we went to see her. She was playing skipee but for a strange reason the game was stuck. Flo needs still to recover and hence we just played a greedy with her, then she retreated to bed. Faye was present in the meanwhile and we gave a just a few orders. I restricted her view, then we went to Puerto Esclava. Faye had now idea where we were and she just coudl feel (see on her radar window) that there were quite a bunch of people. Soon after we had arrived slave Holly came inworld as well and we summoned her to us. We spent almost an hour at Puerto esclava, teasing the slaves and chatting with them and amoung us.

August 10th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at Puerto Escalava with Faye and slave Holly.

We returned home early, said good night to the slaves and retreated to our skybox where Mistress allowed me to lick her and to get my fix before we went to bed ourselves. Thank you, Mistress Jenny!

August 10th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at home

Mistress and I spent 2 hours together on Wednesday, August 11th. We roamed through the coub and I was at Mistress side. I admit that it felt almost a bit strange not to kneel but I will get used to it again. We were at Puerto Esclava, club DeLust, Heavy Bondage Club and club Domme a Domme. We read profiels, chatted amount us, and got quite some applications. When we returned home, Mistress said: “We would be very busy if we took all the collar keys that are thrown at us.W

August 11th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at Puerto Esclava, club DeLust, Heavy Bondage Club and club Domme a Domme

I was inworld early at night and had a nice chat at Heavy Bondage Club. I returned home when Flo came inworld and I first caught up with her, then we played a skipee to make Mistress Jenny come inworld. It worked fine *winks*. Mistress Jenny and slave Faye came inworld and Flo and I stopped playing skipee. Instead we played a greedy all together. And while we played slave Holly came inworld. Faye won the greedy by the way.

Flo went to bed and we took slave Faye and slave Holly to our office. Faye wasn’t taken yet on our desk, time to catch up on that. While slave Holly licked Mistress Jenny and fucked slave Faye …. and then Mistress Jenny and I swapped. That was a good start into the night.

August 11th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita playing greedy with Flo, slave Faye and slave Holly / in our office with the slaves

We went to Carnal Intentions for the rest of our night. we chatted, I enjoyed restricting the slaves and Mistress Jenny was a bit distracted by her RL quite some of our time there. Then we went home and to bed.

August 11th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at Carnal Intentions with slave Faye and slave Holly

Art in Second Life 2021 (77) Sybil by Giovanna Cerise

22 Aug 2021 Leave a comment

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

After my blogpost about the Summer exhibtion at La Maison d’Aneli (read here), Giovanna Cerise sent me an invitation for another installation of her: “Sybil by Giovanna Cerise“.

Giovanna Cerise is not unknow to me. Before the visit of the Summer exhibtion at La Maison d’Aneli (read here) I came across her art in May 2019 also at La Maison d’Aneli (read here). 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.

“Sybil by Giovanna Cerise” is inspired by the ancient figure of the Sibyl. It is set in the cave located in Cuma and rebuilt at Museum Island. According to tradition, the priestess resided in this dark place.
“The sibyls were female prophets or oracles in Ancient Greece. The earliest sibyls, according to legend, prophesied at holy sites. Their prophecies were influenced by divine inspiration from a deity, originally at Delphi and Pessinos. In Late Antiquity, various writers attested to the existence of sibyls in Greece, Italy, the Levant, and Asia Minor.”
(source wikipedia)

Impressions of Sybil by Giovanna Cerise (1) – the tunnel and the oracle

I got a notecard along with the invitatation that explains the background:
“According to the legend, Sibilla was a young girl of superb beauty of Greek origin who possessed great divination skills. One day the God Apollo, struck by her beauty, fell in love with her and to conquer her he promised her that he would fulfill her every wish.
Sybil took a handful of sand from the beach and asked Apollo to let it live as many years as the grains he had collected in his hand. The God satisfied her but the girl made a serious mistake: she forgot to add that she wanted to live the years in eternal youth.
The priestess lived as many years as there were grains of sand enclosed in the palm of her hand, but her body continued to wither and wrinkle year after year, until it faded into dust, eroded – just like the grains of sand – by the merciless flow of the time. Of her, it is said, only her voice and her cryptic predictions survived. Sibyl used to scatter palm leaves on which the words of the prophecy were reported;
It is said that a soldier, having received the sacred response, prepared to recompose the prophecy by assembling the palm leaves scattered by the divine breath. However, when he read the Sybil’s prediction, he noticed its double interpretation, depending on the punctuation:
Ibis, redibis, non morieris in bello – You will go, you will come back, and you will not die in the war – if the comma anticipates the negation; Ibis, redibis non, morieris in bello – You will go, you will not return, and you will die in the war – if instead it is placed after the negation.
The legends around the myth of the Sibyl are different.”

There’s a lot more to read about Sybyl on wikipedia.

Impressions of Sybil by Giovanna Cerise (2) – the roofed terrace with the soldier

The installation at the Museum Island consists of two connected parts. One part is in a tunnel, which is in a trapezoidal shape and is similar to an artificial tunnel of the greek-roman era. In the tunnel Giovanna has place several complete red figures in different poses. The crawl and they run. They are surrounded by particles, that could be letter or anything else. The light is selected very smart, so that the particles melt together and develop a certain dynamic, as if the figures would run.  Light comes into the tunnel from the left side through several passages. The passages lead to the second part, a roofed terrace where Giovanna has installed more objects.

Impressions of Sybil by Giovanna Cerise (3) – objects on the terrace

There is just one cave on the right side of the tunnel. There’s the oracle. A fountain with several coins on the ground. You can click the oracle and get a prophecy. In my case:
“ANTRUM SYBIL – Cumaea Sybil’s Omphalus oracle: You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.“

The roofed terrace features more art objects of Giovanna Cerise, quite hard to describe though. One is clearly dedicated to the soldier, that is mentioned in Giovanna’s notecard. The words from the prophecy (in Italian) appear around a red figure (the soldier) caught in a structure of transparent walls: “Ibis, redibis, non morieris in bello”.
Other objects aremore difficult to interpret, like the hand that holds an hourglass – or like the head encased in a white cloud. Don’t miss looking at the floor, there are traces of blood as well as footprints.

Impressions of Sybil by Giovanna Cerise (4)

Sybil is a very interesting exhibtion and it uses the possibilities of Second Life and the different light options very well. Please make sure that you use the advanced lighting, the shared environment and sun+moon and projectors in your viewer setting. There’s a board which explains it at one end of the roofed terrace.

I have never been to Museum Island before. In the landmark description you find the tags: “Museum Island Monuments art culture theater romantic Royal Opera music museums cinema beauty couple dance monuments arts exhibitions artist photo pics wedding live roma venezia Italia Italy” The sim hosts mre exhibitions and I might return. The Museum Island is group owned, the founder of the group is John Noone (johnnoone).

Thank you Giovanna and thank you to all who were involved enabling “Sybil by Giovanna Cerise”

Landmark to Sybil by Giovanna Cerise
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Museum%20Island/226/25/22
wikipedia about Sibyl
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibyl
Giovanna Cerise’s website
http://giovannacerise.blogspot.it/

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