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Tonight (August 11th, 12 PM SL-time) Bamboo Barnes will open a new exhibition at Artsville: “A Dream of Eating Colors“

“A Dream of Eating Colors” by Bamboo Barnes @ Artsville – exhibition Poster and first impressions

Upon landing your avatar will be submerged in colours – or eaten by the colours. Actually the landing point is inside of an installation consisting of 3 large coloured spheres. The spheres change their colour and the background as well as the floor is permanently changing as well. Just when you move out or zoom out, you can see that you became part of this colourful installation.

Once you stepped out of the installation you can see the whole setup of “A Dream of Eating Colors“. It is built on a large rectangular platform. In the corners Bamboo has installed 3D art objects. In the center is a large area with more 3D art, with red rays reaching out into the sky as well as with hands that reach out to the sky … and white gleaming boxes and spheres.  Make sure that you use Shared Environment, enabled Advanced Lighting Model and select a a raw distance abve 128m. Using shadows is also recommended, but I did not enable it myself.

Around the center and between the above corner installations, Bamboo presents her 2D art – colorful pictures, often you may see female faces or bodies in them, some are just abstract and as they are from Bamboo Barnes all pictures are made up of several layers, so that you can immerse into the pictures and see different objects, faces or impressions.

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Back to the corner installations – one of them is made up of about 20 billard balls. You can walk between the balls. Once you get closer to a ball you see a picture, a court of a small town, in the ball. When you step away it is gone again. And the same picture appears under your feet when you walk to the center of “A Dream of Eating Colors” (where the hands reach up into the sky). Another art object a bit aside turned out to be a porch swing and I had a short break sitting there.

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Bamboo Barnes added a poem in her opening party invitation. The poem might refer to the the red rays and the hands in the center:
“You, want my love for vain
I, want my blood red
Taste colors, still remain
In the woods of bloody red “

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Bamboo is in Second Life for over 15 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), the exhibition “Meant to be” at Itakos Art Gallery last year (read here), I saw “Conjure” at FOCUS Magazine F.A.I.R Gallery in August 2021 (read here), “Mindstorm” at IMAGO Land (read here) and “Drawer” at Hannington Arts Foundation (read here). In December 2021 I saw her exhibition “The path” at Art care gallery (read here) and 2022 i visited “Metaphysics” at the Kondor Art Center, (read here), Colores Primarios (read here), “New Day”  (read here) and  “Personal Aspect” (read here). This year I saw “Unusual” at Kondor Art Center (read here) and “Far From” at Selen’s gallery (read here). One could say, I’m a fan of Bamboo’s art!

The exhibitions “New Day”  (read here) and “Far From” at Selen’s gallery (read here) are still open for a visit.
Look also at Bamboo’s flickr page.

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Artsville was created in collaboration the Art Korner blog, owned and founded by Frank Atisso. Artsville itself is group owned, Frank Atisso is one of the co-owners. Bamboo mentioned Jerzzie Reece Redstar (Jerzzie Reece) and Jeanie (jeanienabottle) as a member of the Artsville team. Thank you all for providing the space for the art and for enabling “A Dream of Eating Colors“. Thank you Bamboo Barnes for your art.

I enjoyed visit.

Landmark to “A Dream of Eating Colors” by Bamboo Barnes at Artsville
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Caribbean%20Ocean/110/112/1502
Landmark to Artsville
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Caribbean%20Ocean/74/62/22
Bamboo Barnes’ flickr page
https://www.flickr.com/photos/bamboobarnes/
Bamboo Barnes on facebook
https://www.facebook.com/bamboo.barnes
Artsville flickr
https://www.flickr.com/groups/14823986@N21/
Art Korner blog
https://www.artkornersl.com/