Art in Second Life 2021 (119) Clay & Seed

13 Dec 2021 1 Comment

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

Akiko Kinoshi (Akiko Kiyori) invited me to the opening of a new exhibtion at her sim Akimori on Sunday, December 5th. I had seen there “The Borderless Project” this Summer and wrote a blogpost series about it (read here part I, part II, part III and part IV). The new exhibition is called “Clay & Seed“.

I could not attend the opening itself and went there already the day before the official opening party. Akiko had told me that the exhibition was already open. With the invitation I got a notecard with the landmark, a notecard about the exhibition and a notecard with information about each participating artist: Haveit Neox, Bamboo Barnes and Lilia Artis.

Clay & Seed is “a collaboration of art, utilizing 3D, 2D, and Text. For the Clay & Seed exhibit, Bamboo Barnes chose to focus on 2D artwork, Lilia Artis on poetry, and Haveit Neox on sculpture and architecture. The goal was to have these disciplines unite into a single work, which in this case of three like-minded artists, occurred organically.

Haveit’s galleries provide the supporting walls for Bamboo’s imagery, while Lilia’s poetry garnishes the windows of these clay buildings and thus closes the circle. During the process, each artist’s work contained a seed of inspiration for the other two. Being admirers of each other’s works for many years, it seems destiny smiled on these three with the opportunity to share their visions together and in an art region that inspired their creativity.

Describing the erosion of the environment and human relationships, the work of all three artists explores the fields of destruction, growth, abuse, hope, gratefulness, and loneliness.“

The landing is in the center of the installation on a little platform with three trees. A few chairs invite to sit down and to have a first view on the artwork. It is in the skies. Two big buildings, which reminded me of cathedrals, caught my eyes first. The two buildings are the galleries. Between the two buildings are several platforms in the form of dishes. They seem to be supported by many beings among others also mermaids. On the dishes are 3D art objects. You also see paths that lead the visitor around and along the paths are more 3D art objects.

Clay & Seed – Impressions (1): First views on Haveit Neox’ artwork

At the landing point you can grab presents from the three artists, art that you can use to display at home. I started to explore the installation. All 3D objects were made by Haveit Neox. In the accompanying notecard Haveit wrote about himself:
“I feel that I grew up in a garden. Nearly always a barefoot kid with stained feet from the earth, I constructed primitive cities with yard debris, mud, and twigs. Colorful paint and cutout pictures from magazines enriched the surfaces. Later I fashioned cities of fired clay and glazes. Interior and exterior spaces fascinated me as I observed bugs take up residence. I also drew cities on paper and long scrolls. The cities advanced from their mud origins to painted scrolls, and ceramics.
In Real Life, I have displayed my artworks mainly in Los Angeles, New York, and a couple shows in Paris. The theme is often based on urban settings of my own invention. In December 2009, I was led to the virtual world of Second Life. As a child, a strong and recurrent fantasy was miniature people populating my cities. Avatars fulfill that dream. The spaces I make in SL receive real people in their pixel guise. In the context of the city, the interior and exterior spaces hold my artwork, and are themselves a habitable exhibit.“

Clay & Seed – Impressions (2): Haveit Neox’ artwork

There’s a lot to discover and to see. For example you find the small clay cities, you find artful beings like horses, fishes, mermaids, fantasy beings, you find smaller 3D art pieces where several layers build the 3D effect. And the 2 galleries of course.

Some of Haveit Neox’ sims and buildings still can be seen in Second Life – something on my list of places to visit: Acc Alpha (also known as the city of Accentaury), QeddoQ, Sparquerry and Centaurs’ Hall.
On vimeo you can watch a video about Haveit’s RL clay artwork and about Accentaury: Accentaury Tour 2014. On the sim of ACC Alpha, Accentaury, City Center 2016.

At the entrance of both gallery buildings are storks that hold boards with the poems of Lilia Artis. As mentioned above, poems are also in the windows of the two gallery buildings. They aer kind of a connecting element between Haveit Neox’ 3D art and buildings and Bamboo Barnes’ pictures that are exhibited inside of the galleries.

Clay & Seed – Impressions (3): Lilia Artis’ poems

spit out

you look at me
showing yellow teeth
I see cities tumble
out of your open mouth
and remnants of corpses

your foul breath crawls
over my body that is locked in place
to witness you gobbling down empires
and spitting them out again
only to tell me who I am

Lilia Artis writes about herself:
“My RL artwork stepped into the background when I discovered the love of writing, which has become my main career. Coming into SL however, rekindled the passion for the paths of colours, light, pattern and structure. And so, I merge both interests into my virtual art, be it 2D, 3D or machinima. During my creative voyage all these years I noticed how much my virtual art inspired the exploration of my RL artwork and vice versa, often one leading to the other. In the beginning I was neck deep into painting with acrylics and water colours and drawing. When I later learned to weld metal and to sculpt stone and wood, I discovered my love of creating 3D objects. At first it only led to learning the goldsmith craft and creating my own jewelry. But I was hooked and seeing what you can do with prims in SL felt like such a similar process, minus the damaged fingers. I will never forget the joy of building my first simple virtual installations made of prims. Again several years later, learning to sculpt with 3D software led to learning to sculpt with clay in RL, something I would never have considered otherwise. But I wanted to create faces, something that fascinates me most…
I have done solo and collaborative exhibitions in galleries and at events in Second Life. For a while my main focus concerning artwork was on machinima. I teamed up with Haveit Neox and we expanded to RL art projects as well, which we will continue into the future. Since 2015 in SL I focused on building together with Haveit Neox the Arts & Entertainment region for Fantasy Faire.”
There are still video’s available of Lilia Artis’ machimas, which were made for the UWA art challenges, 2015 & 2014: ‘Tis an Egg, touching white and Striding – unknown Roads.

Clay & Seed – Impressions (4): Bamboo Barnes’ artwork

Inside of the galleries are Bamboo Barnes pictures. I never saw that many pictures of her than in this exhibtion. There are around 30 pictures in each of the two buildings.
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), 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), I saw “Mindstorm” at IMAGO Land (read here), and just recently I saw her exhibition “Drawer” at Hannington Arts Foundation (read here). I also had a look at her flickr page.

Clay & Seed – Impressions (5): Bamboo Barnes’ artwork

The broad range of themes is intriguing. There are pictures that remind of Mediterrean cities painted in water colour and artfully processed in Bamboo’s way. There are faces under several layers so that the spectator has to dive into the picture, there are pure abstract cretions as well as pictures of art objects. You have to see them yourself – and you need time to get all the details. Each of the two buildings would be worth a seperate visit.
But that’s not all…. Looking down I could see another platform. It is connected to the art installation “Clay & Seed” with a long row of horses which winds up from there to the platform. I did not check if you could walk up and down, I think it is more another art object, that connects the world below with “Clay & Seed” in the sky. On the lower level is another art installation of Bamboo Barnes, this time in 3D. I didn’t find a name or anything about it. The installation consists of boxes, mirror boxes and ice cubes. As you could expect it, it hs very colourful. You can walk inside and suddently you’re completely in another world. Whereever your look at you see Bamboo’s art.
In the outside Bamboo added some geometrical forms and objects .. and you can sit down for a break and a chair. This chair is one of the gifts you could grab at the landing of “Clay & Seed” – and it is now also at my homeplace.

Below “Clay & Seed” – Bamboo Barnes’ Boxes

Visiting “Clay & Seed” made my Saturday an art day! I enjoyed my visit, reading about the artists and writing about this great installation. Thank you Akiko Kinoshi (Akiko Kiyori) for your kind invitation as well as for providing the space for the arts. Thank you Haveit Neox, Bamboo Barnes and Lilia Artis for your artwork.
According to Akiko “Clay & Seed” will be availabe for a visit for several months.

Landmark to Clay & Seed @ Akimori
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Akimori/189/86/1740

Haveit Neox Acc Alpha (also known as the city of Accentaury)
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/ACC%20Alpha/236/208/54
Haveit Neox QeddoQ
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/qeddoq/110/118/32
Haveit Neox Sparquerry
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sparquerry/128/128/28
Haveit Neox Centaurs’ Hall
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Verdigris/209/75/66
Haveit Neox RL clay artwork
https://vimeo.com/281525163
Haveit Neox Accentaury Tour 2014. On the sim of ACC Alpha
https://vimeo.com/115370393
Haveit Neox Accentaury, City Center 2016
https://vimeo.com/195723654
Lilia Artis ‘Tis an Egg
https://vimeo.com/143798263
Lilia Artis touching white
https://vimeo.com/144233680
Lilia Artis Striding – unknown Roads
https://vimeo.com/110392433
Bamboo Barnes’ flickr page
https://www.flickr.com/photos/bamboobarnes/

Diary 2021 (161) November 24th/25th Under control II

12 Dec 2021 Leave a comment

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

Wednesday, November 24th, I met Mistress Jenny in the morning by accident. I was inworld to check my messages and to adjust and become familiar with a new body part, a mesh body vagina. Mistress Jenny was at Heavy Bondage Club and I joined her there. We caught up with our mutual news and visited Puerto Esclava shortly. Then Mistress Jenny had to tend to her RL and left. I did for what I came inworld und adjusted the vagina. It comes with a HUD which with you not only specify the skin tone and the pubic hair, you can also select facial expressions and sound. I played around a bit with it to get familiar, then I logged out.

November 24th: Mistress Jenny and Ehesklavin Diomita at club Domme a Domme and at our secret hideway

In the earlier afternoon, I met Mistress Jenny and this time we visited Carnal Intentions and club Domme a Domme, but it was quiet and hence we retreated to our secret hideaway after half an hour. When we arrived I stripped immediately – my new rule for when I’m there. Mistress stripped too and ordered me to lick her and to get my fix. Thank you, Mistress Jenny.
Mistress was not done with me yet. She had to pee …. and after she peed, Mistress offered me her foot to rub myself on it. To shorten it, Mistress degraded me and made me feel my position. Afterwards she talked almost an hour with me and bolstered me, confirmed her care and love and made me feel better again.
Before Mistress left, she dressed for the evening as she would run a bit late.

I was inworld ealry at night and none of the family was present. But Goddess was inworld and I went to her to get the approval for my new vagina. She like it and made pictures of it – also to have something to blackmail me (that wont be necessary though) (i won’t publish these pictures *winks). Anyway we talked again and after an hour I left and returned home just in time to meet Mistress Jenny who just came inworld as well as Flo.
We had our regular skipee game first. Our doll Sun was only shortly inworld, but slave Holly joined us before we ended our game. We took Flo and Holly to Psi’s realm that night. It was full and we got quite something to watch and to be entertained.

November 24th: Mistress Jenny andn Diomita at Psi’s realm and at Carnal Intentions with Flo and slave Holly

After Flo had left to bed it became less busy at Psi’s realm and we moved on to Carnal Intentions with slave Holly until bedtime. Later, after Mistress had logged off, I visited a gallery before I went to be myself.

Thursday, November 25th, Mistress Jenny and I met in the afternoon. We stayed at our loft skybox and just caught up with our mutual news until Mistress had to leave to tend to her RL. I sorted my inventory and stayed at Puerto Esclava for about one hour being more or less absent and doing other things in RL – really nothing happened until I logged out.

November 25th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at home

At night Mistress Jenny and I met comparably early. Flo was already present and we played a (long) game of skipee. Just before we had finished Sun and slave Holly came inworld and joined us at the table.
We went to our terrace as we could talk in main chat there but that failed. Sun was still in a bad mood and was struggling with her expectations and situation. For sure it also had to do with her RL and she confirmed several times that it was not our fault. Anyway, Mistress and I, we both had Sun in IM and couldn’t focus on main chat.
After Sun and Flo had left for bed, Ebony joined us. But I couldn’t really tend my attention to our black bitch as I needed to pee urgently. I took my personal toilet with me to our bathroom and got relief there.

November 25th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at home, shopping and at Carnal Intentions with Ebony, Flo, Sun and slave Holly

Then we went shopping. With Black Friday ahead many stores have special rebates, also in Second Life. We went to BellaBee and to XO. I dragged slave Holly with me at my leash, I think she was more focused on the taste of my pee and my soiled panties in her mouth *winks*. Mistress Jenny, Ebony and I bought some special offers and would have quite something to unpack the next day.
Finally we went to Carnal Intentions to wind down a bit.

Diary 2021 (160) November 22nd/23rd Under control

11 Dec 2021 Leave a comment

by diomitamaurer in Diary, Exploring sims in Second Life Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Monday, November 22nd, I spent some time at Puerto Esclava around lunch time. Goddess Katie had demanded that I wear just some rugs, no shoes and dirt when I’m alone – and so I did. You also see why I was wearing sunglasses for almost a week. I caught a black eye, when Goddess Katie had to punish me for being unattentive.
It was strange being at Puerto Esclava like this, but none really took notice of me. I even got my feet cleaned by a pathetic slave girl there. I just wonder that she didn’t taste the dog shit I had stepped in by accident *winks*.

November 22nd: Diomita at Puerto Esclava / Mistress Jenny and Diomita at Heavy Bondage Club with Ann

Later in the afternoon I met with Mistress Jenny at Heavy Bondage Club for an hour. We caught up with our mutual news and we watched the silent crowd. Annie (Transann) was there and she presented us her newest puppy suit. Good that our doll Sun didn’t see it. Our hour went by way too quickly again.

At night Mistress and I played a skipee with Flo and our doll Sun and slave Holly joined us and watched. After the game Sun had to leave for bed early as she had a long day in RL. We took slave Holly and Flo to DHB and got a new chastity belt for slave Holly. Back home we tried it on – a perfect fit! It was Flo’s bed time and we took slave Holly to Psi’s realm to expose her in her new gear. slave holly likes her new gear – and we do too. As she’s back in chastity we removed the sybian from her room when we brought her to bed that night.

November 22nd: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at home and at Psi’s realm with slave Holly in her nwe chastity belt

After Mistress Jenny had left for bed, I went to Puerto Esclava and spent an hour with Goddess Katie there. We just talked and got known to eachother a bit better.

November 22nd: Goddess Katie (Katielouisse) and Diomita

Tuesday, November 23rd, I logged in in the later morning. Mistress Jenny was present and she summoned me to her. She was at Penumbra Space Station and visiting our Kitty – finally. We hadn’t seen Kitty for ages!

Penumbra Space Station is hidden in an asteroid field in the outer regions of a little travelled star system without any habitable worlds floats “Penumbra Station”, a private residence of a wealthy individual with morally very dubious incomes from slave trade. The few who have set foot into the station… were lost to the world. It is known that the station holds a containment system for the merchandise… and that the owner has strange and deviant tastes. But yet… there are some rare individuals who crave the total loss of control and the tight restrictions….
Read more at the Penumbra Space Station website.

November 23rd: Penumbra Space Station source: https://companionaleeri.wixsite.com/penumbra

Mistress had contact with the owner and governess of the space station Lady Aleeri (Aleeri). Soon after I arrived, Lady Aleeri joined us and we retreated with her to talk about our Kitty. Lady Aleeri turned out to be a nice and strict person and we could quickly find a good solution for our Kitty. She will have IM, yet with us only. And she may visit us (none else). And as a little extra for her friends who miss her mischief at Psi’s realm, she might even go there.
But….. she remains in space until further notice.

November 23rd: Mistress Jenny and Diomita with Lady Aleeri and Kitty at Penumbra Space Station

In the afternoon I met with Mistress Jenny at Heavy Bondage Club and we stayed there quite a while catching up with our mutual news as we had no time when we had met in the morning. Then we moved on the club Domme a Domme. We had just arrived when Goddess Katie entered the club. Mistress Jenny ordered me to kneel between her and Goddess and to offer my leash to Goddess.

Mistress and Goddess Katie talked with each other and after some time at club Domme a Domme, Mistress asked me to go to our secret hideaway and to teleport Goddess and her. I did as ordered. The two dommes came up with rules for me, one was that I had to stay naked at all times when in the secret hideaway. Goddess snapped her finger and I stripped. I had to crawl and worship Goddess feet while the two talked and kissed. Both made it crystal clear that I have no say in any matter.

November 23rd: Mistress Jenny and Goddess Katie with Diomita at Heavy Bondage Club, at club Domme a Domme and in our secret hideaway

When Mistress had left to tend to her RL, Goddess had her way with me and fucked me hard with her strapon before she left herself. I was quite exhausted and returned home and went off myself. What an intense afternoon – it was just the 6th day being co-owned by Goddess and so much had already changed for me.

After this intense afternoon, I had a comparably relaxed night within the family. Sun was cleaning the house when we came inworld, Flo was playing skipee. We joined Flo and played a round. I talked a lot with our doll Sun in IM. She was in a bad mood and tired and didn’t join us. She left before we had ended the game.
slave Holly and slave Alessi joined us at the game table and we took Flo, Holly and ALessi to Carnal Intentions after the game. We spent the night chatting … and I played with Holly’s new belt and cuffs and got a bit more familiar with it.

November 23rd: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at Carnal Intentions with Flo, slave Holly and slave Alessi

After the slaves had left for bed, Mistress Jenny went simhopping and I went to Puerto Esclava and spent more than an hour at Goddess Katie’s feet. We just talked. It seems as if I had stung into a wasp nest and got myself into real trouble…. (no picture this time)

Art in Second Life 2021 (118) Somewhere Photos by Theda Tammas and Iono Allen

10 Dec 2021 Leave a comment

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

On Saturday, December 4th, a new exhibition was opened at DixMix Gallery in room “Amona” – “Somewhere – Photos” by Theda Tammas and Iono Allen.

The exhibition showcases 14 pictures and one video of the installation “Somewhere” by Theda Tammas and Iono Allen. I reported about this installation in this blog already (read here). This installation is still opened until Sunday, December 12th on the skyplatform “Womb” at DixMix Gallery. So hurry up, if you haven’t seen it yet! I added the post about the installation below once again.

Some examples of Somewhere – Photos by Theda and Iono Allen (1)

It is amazing to see the pictures of this installation. Each of them is a piece of art. Knowing the installation itself immediately brings up pictures in motion in your mind and you can literally see the motion, the dances and the figures when you look at the pictures.
But it you haven’t seen the installation itself, you might come to another interpretation. That is the amzaing effect of art, it produces different stories, it make you reflect about what you see, it produces different pictures and stories in each and everyone.

Some examples of Somewhere – Photos by Theda and Iono Allen (2)

There’s also a video screen at “Somewhere – Photos” where you can see the installation in motion. I enjoyed my visit and it motivated me to visit the installation itself again on the skyplatform “Womb”.

Thank you Dixmix for providing and curating the DixMix Gallery, thank you Megan for building it and for contributing to it. Many thanks of course also to Theda Tammas and Iono Allen for creating “Somewhere” and now for providing “Somewhere – Photos“.

Art in Second Life 2021 (99) Somewhere by Theda Tammas and Iono Allen

Saturday, September 25th, a new art installation at DixMix Gallery was opened on the skyplatform “Womb”: “Somewhere” by Theda Tammas and Iono Allen.

The Womb is a seperate platform in the skies above the gallery. The teleport is right next to where you land.
Once you’re on the platform you should adjust your viewer settings: graphics to ultra (or to the best your system can handle), enabled advanced lighting, shared environment (top menu “world” -> “environment”) and allow media to be played automatically.

The installation extends over 3 levels. “Somewhere” uses a lot of the different creative possibilities of virtual worlds. On the first level, where you arrive, is a big screen quite at the end of the platform. The floor is white, something between snow and sand, the sky is grey, cloudy and dark. The screen shows a film that seems to be made in this environment. A woman with a magnificent head of blue hair is dancing, she almost hoovers over the ground. And step by step other women, twins of her show up. When they are five, all dancing sychron, they disappear into the horizon before the video restarts.

Impressions of “Somewhere” by Theda Tammas and Iono Allen (1)

On the left side of the platform is a stair. It leads your to the 2nd level of the installation. The ground has some gaps through which you can see the 1st level below of you and in the sky you see the 3rd level frough even larger gaps. On the 2nd floor are several objects. The woman of the video now appears as animated dancing figure. She dances in or around the objects, she sits in a red net like being caught by it. She dances under huge gates and she watches herself dancing in other videos shown on 2 screens. The combination of light effects with the ground and skies, the videos, the 3D art ojects, the animated and static figures build a unique and permanent changing art installation. You can animate yourself to dance by clicking objects that look like bar stools on the first glance. And then let your mind wander …

Impressions of “Somewhere” by Theda Tammas and Iono Allen (2)

Getting on the 3rd level wasn’t that easy as I found no stairs. I tried walking through gates and all of a sudden got to the 3rd level. This level was obviously used for the opening event. Again you find different objects with the woman either dancing of being kept like a prisoner. Once free they dance, seek nearness to each other and follow a lead. They break out of their own prisons and limitations.

Impressions of “Somewhere” by Theda Tammas and Iono Allen (3)

Theda Tammas is in SL for more than 14 years. She has had already some exhibtions of her work. I couldn’t find out a lot more about her. If I interpreted it right, then she’s from Brasil (I might be wrong though). Theda has an own website where you can see a lot of her former installations.

Iono Allen is also more than 14 years in SL and not only from his profile I conclude that his main passion is making films, so called machimas. He has an own vimeo channel where I found a video about “Somewhere”.

Thank you Dixmix for providing and curating the DixMix Gallery, thank you Megan for building it and for contributing to it. Many thanks of course also to Theda Tammas and Iono Allen for creating “Somewhere“. Another great installation of the two. It is not the first collaborative artwork of Theda and Iono. Theda made the figures, the art objects and the setup of the installation, Iono made the video clips. Once again I enjoyed my visit.

Landmark to DixMix Gallery
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Madori%20Bay/46/213/22
Theda Tammas website
https://bytheda.weebly.com/
Iono Allen’s vimeo channel
http://vimeo.com/user2558273

Diary 2021 (159) Novmber 20th/21st – A lazy uneventful weekend

09 Dec 2021 Leave a comment

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

Saturday, November 20th, I had more than an hour of togetherness with Mistress Jenny. I was still under the impressions of a lot of emotions about the last days and hence I used my time to talk with Mistress and to feel safe next to her and at her feet. Not really much happened, actually nothing happened. We just had a good time together.
After Mistress had left to tend to her RL I went visiting an installation at SLEA and wrote fpr the blog afterwards.

November 20th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at Puerto Esclava with a random slave and at Heavy Bondage Club

At night our princess doll Sun and Flo was present. We’re glad that Flo is back home. We stared with a round of Skipee with Flo, then we went to Psi’s realm where Alessi and later Argi joined us. It became a relaxed chatty night. Argi is always fun and there was also some main chat going on at Psi’s before. A good night.

November 20th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at Psi’s realm with Argi, Flo, slave Alessi and Maurer’s pet Sun

Sunday, November 21st, I met with Mistress again in the afternoon and once again we had 1 1/2 hour just for us, chatting and looking good, talking with applicants and just enjoying being together. Mistress left me lashed at our skybox when I had to leave.
I returned later, shortly before dinner, and Mistress Jenny was still inworld but on her way offline. She had had a bad play expierence. Well, that happens as we all know.

November 21st: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at Heavy Bondage Club and at club Domme a Domme

At night we had Flo, slave Holly and our pricess doll Sun with us and we first played a skipee as teams. Mistress Jenny and slave Holly won it against Flo and me in the end. I used the time playing to chat with our doll, who left us after the game. slave Alessi had joined us in the meanwhile and we all went to Psi’s realm for the rest of the night and continued chatting. It was a very relaxed night.

November 21st: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at Psi’s realm with Flo, slave Holly and slave Alessi

Art in Second Life 2021 (117) Boudicca Amat at DixMix Gallery

08 Dec 2021 2 Comments

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

I visited the exhibition “Boudicca Amat” at DixMix Gallery in room Amalafia, that opened November 27th. The exhibition consists of 10 pictures by Boudicca Amat.

The ten selected pictures cover a broad range of themes, yet all show a female or a female face, be it in a more historic context, be it as a fantasy being or be it as a modern woman of these days. All ten pictures are quite focused offering not too many details. They range from minimalism to colourful fatasy.  Boudicca clearly has developed her own style and is able to create this variety.

I came across Boudicca Amat in August 2020 the first time, when I saw her small exhibition “5 Times Boudicca” at “The 22 Art Space in Bellisseria” (read here).
Boudicca is in Second Life amost 15 years. She writes about herself and her art in her profile:
“I make pictures. I make them for my own amusement, they have no deep meaning,
I’m not trying to ‘say’ something – I use my mouth and my typing skills for that.
For me they are an exercise in arrangement, lighting and effects. Sometimes it works ……sometimes it doesn’t”
And from the rest of her profile I can tell Boudicca lose to read, to talk and to write at least as much as making pictures. As for her pictures I can only say, I like them. You can find more of her art at her flickr account.

Thank you Dixmix for providing and curating the DixMix Gallery, thank you Megan for building it and for contributing at it. And thank you Viloet Boa for the PR, you are such a helpful and supportive being. I enjoyed my visit and seeing Boudicca Amat’s art.
Usually exhibtions at DixMix Gallery stay open for 4 weeks at least, hence “… in there” should stay open until around Christmas

Landmark to Dixmix Gallery
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Madori%20Bay/46/213/22
Boudicca Amat’s flickr
https://www.flickr.com/photos/10585546@N04/

Diary 2021 (158) November 18th/19th Princess doll / Two superiors

07 Dec 2021 Leave a comment

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

Thursday, November 18th, I met with Jenny in the afternoon. After we had caught up with our news I took her to club Domme a Domme to enjoy a last time exposing my property in public. I use a gag and a anal hook for present her properly and helplessly. We just spent ahlf an hour at the club, then I took Jenny home and fucked her. Knowing that my green light had to end that afternoon, I stopped fucking her and licked her over the edge. Her juices had the expected effect, but it didn’t matter as it was time to return control.

November 18th: Mistress Diomita and Jenny at club Domme a Domme and at home

At night just our latex doll Sun was present first when Mistress and I came inworld. We went to Psi’s realm with her. Just as we had said hello to everybody, Flo came inworld. She had sent a message to me the day before, that she had some health issues and won’t be online for some days. So that was a surprise. We returned home and met her in her hut. She was inworld with a mobile device. Alessi joined us in the hut. After chatting with Flo we went to the games area just to find out that Flo couldn’t play with her mobile device. In the meanwhile slave Holly had also joined us. After a few attempts Flo gave up and said good night. Mistress and I took our doll, Holly and Alessi to our decking and sat down there.
Sun had requested another day off to meet with her partner. Mistress granted that but we had planed to spice her day off a little bit. Sun had to strip and to dress in a princess doll outfit our our choice. And we selected something really doll-like. And when I found a doll-box in my inventory the fun was conplete.

November 18th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at home with Dolly (Sun), Holly (slave Holly) and slave Alessi watching the transformation of our latex doll into a princess doll

We spent quite some time at home and had fun cracking jokes about dolls and teasing. Then we moved on to Psi#s realm for half an hour where we continued having fun with the girls.

November 18th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at Psi’s realm with princess doll Sun, slave Holly and slave Alessi

Once again we had an unexpected fun time in Second Life.

Friday, November 19th, I met with Mistress in the afternoon. We spent our time at Puerto Esclava and at Heavy Bondage Club. More than 3 hours! We talked and we watched. And we had quite something to talk about. I wrote about Miss K some days ago in this diary. Miss K wanted to mark me and Mistress Jenny had consented to it. Miss K is black and she wanted me to wear a Queen of Spades with her name on my butt. I had drafted the mark myself and had run it by Miss K in the later morning – and she had aprroved the mark.
This afternoon Mistress Jenny decided that I may not take off the mark anymore unless she has made it being removed professionally. Furtheron she decided that I had to address Miss K as Mistress from now on. And later Miss K (Katielouisse) demanded that I address her with Goddess. So now I have two superiors to serve, Mistress Jenny and Goddess…. it might become a challenge, in particular besides heading the family. But then, it is SL and experimenting and doing what you don’t do in RL is what makes our time enjoyable.

November 19th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at Puerto Esclava and at Heavy Bondage Club

At night we had our party. Mistress Jenny and I had fixed a theme already some time ago: “It’s Friday again – and it is not Black Friday yet. Hence this Friday wear anything but black – or come as you are. Let’s start another great weekend. DJ Virgo is spinning the tunes.”

November 19th – Friday night party: Mistress Jenny, diomita, Maurer’s pet Sun, Katie (Katielouisse), Domina Ansar, Cherry (Elenaslv Serenity), Baroness Capelo (upper row), Della randt, Starbright Wingtips, Lizzy Rascon, Firefly Dakota, Pacitu, Laura (Laura00175), Claven Albatros, Virgo Babii (lower row)

We had fun like every Friday. My new superior Goddess Katie joined our party. Mistress Jenny had a longer conversation with Sun. I talked with Sun and with Goddess Katie … and Mistress and Katie talked about me. Can it be worse? What did I get me in? Anyway, I will give away this – I’m going to have a hard week ahead (in SL).
And after our party Goddess took me to her home where she had her way with me (no pictures).

Art in Second Life 2021 (116) Virtual Identity by Margherita Hax

06 Dec 2021 1 Comment

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

I visisted the December exhibition at Nitroglobus Roof Gallery. It features an artist, that is known by her flickr page yet never exhibited in Second Life so far: Margherita Hax. The exhibtion is named “Virtual Identity” and consists of 13 pictures.

As I know already from my many visits to the Nitroglobus Roof Gallery the showcased picture are presented very well by the mirroring effect of the floor. As the name of the exhibition implies, the pictures deal with the virtual identity we give our avatar in Second Life. Although the mind and soul remains in the physical world, we try to express ourselves in our avatar – and usually we follow the dream of perfect beauty and perfectionism.

Margarita wrotes about her exhibtion:
“The title of this collection of images exhibited at Nitroglobus is inspired by the paradox which Second Life initiates between the identity hidden behind the monitor and the one revealed by the avatar, the messenger of the human being controlling the avatar..
I have always felt the fascination of this paradoxical combination of emotions which, although limited and contained by an important filter in one sense, flow even stronger into the other. Thus, suspended from judging what is true or fake, in my photos, through portraits, gazes, stories and attitudes, I try to show and narrate emotions, lifestyle, relationships and (why not) love in 3D, where even the Myths (Athena, Eros and Narcissus) are present.”

Impressions of Virtual Identity by Margherita Hax @ Nitroglobus Roof Gallery (1)

Margherita Hax is in Second Life since 2007. She’s Italian. Over the years she experimented in many roles and jobs which all represented a part of her, especially her creativity. She was a model, an event host, a producer and director of shows and a theatrical actress. She was always looking for both an aesthetic and an artistic dimension, had fun, got excited, she fell in love, suffered from the limits of virtuality and moreover was also afraid of no limits.
In real life Margherita Hax is (no surprise) also passionate about visual arts. However, her passion for photography in Second Life wasn’t there in the beginning but came much later.
It is – besides her flickr account with alomost one thousand followers, the first time that Margarita Hax exhibits her artwork publicly in Second Life.

Impressions of Virtual Identity by Margherita Hax @ Nitroglobus Roof Gallery (2)

Nitroglobus Roof Gallery is owned and curated by Dido Haas. She has a speparete room at the gallery to showcase her own art, the main room is mostly dedicated to feature other artists.
Thank you, Dido for providing the space for the art and for enabling the exhibition “Virtual Identity” by Margherita Hax, which will be open for the public throughout December 2021. And thank you Margherita for your great artwork. I enjoyed my visit.

Landmark to Nitroglobus Roof Gallery
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sunshine%20Homestead/38/22/1002
Margherita Hax’ flickr
https://www.flickr.com/photos/90988717@N06//

Diary 2021 (157) November 17th In control

05 Dec 2021 Leave a comment

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

Wednesday, November 17th, I was inworld in the late morning. I got a picture from slave Holly that made me smile. Many years ago Jenny and I bought lockets that sent pre-defined messages. We noticed that the messages did fit to what we just were doing quite often and that made us laugh: “The lockets knew”. Nowadays we use the lockets every once in a while for brainwashing our slaves.

On our sim we have a script named “Slave’s mind” that also sends predefined messages to those we add to the script. The predefined messages are the rules, the slaves have to follow. So it is kind of a reminder and also a kind of brainwashing. When Holly went peeing, she just got the rule about peeing – “the Slave’s mind knew” *winks*

November 17th: slave Holly captured the moment “the Slave’s mind knew”

I had in mind just to peek into Second Life. But as so often it didn’t work out as planned. K was present and she started to put me in my place. I might reveal who K is some time soon. So far she seems to become a permanent second owner of me, but we will see. So far she (and also I) enjoy.

In the afternoon I met with Jenny and took her to club Domme a Domme. I had fun teasing and restricting her. I made her crawl at the club and put her in one of the small cages there. Dely (krysbia) came by and joined me in teasing Jenny. Without any conspiracy between Dely and me, Dely asked me to keep Jenny under my control for at least another week. Jenny was gagged and hence dely couldn’t understand what Jenny replied to her request. I did understand it – she struggled to give in and insisted that my green light only lasted one more day. Bad girl, Jenny.

November 17th: Mistress Diomita and Jenny at club Domme a Domme with Dely (krysbia)

I was not upset. I did not have in mind to overstep the limit Jenny had set for me when I control her. Nonetheless, I am in control and I can’t accept Jenny to struggle or talk back. I said good bye to Dely and took Jenny to our secret skybox. Once there and without hesitating I made Jenny strip, then I put my strapon on and fucked her brain off. I had fun explaining that I still own her – and she had fun too (she might not admit).

November 17th: Mistress Diomita fucking her property Jenny

Jenny and I had a relaxed night, When we came inworld, none of the family was present and we went to Puerto eslava to catch up and to look good and to have a look on what was going on there. We went to Carnal Intentions when slave Holly came inworld and Sun joined us there soon after. We had just a chatty night again, relaxed and enjoyable

November 17th: Mistress Diomita and Jenny at Puerto Esclava and at Carnal Intentions with slave Holly and latex doll Sun

Finally, just before we went to bed and off and after we had brought Holly and Dolly to Holly’s room, I got this picture from doll Sun – just perfect.

November 17th: slave Holly and latex doll Sun = Holly and Dolly

Art in Second Life 2021 (115) Michiel Bechir Galleries in December 2021

04 Dec 2021 Leave a comment

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

I visited the current exhibtion at Michiel Bechir Galleries that features the art of 4 female artists, three of them unbeknownst to me so far: Evie Heights (Eve Pearl), Mya Audebarn, Serenitee Bliss and Rose (rosehanry). With just a few exceptions the exhibtion shows female portraits – 4 artists, 4 different styles and interpretations.

My visit started right outside of the gallery where the artwork of Evie Heights is showcased on esels. The seven pictures are all showing female portrait pictures, all with a different layout. While on the first glance there are 7 different females, actually all pictures show one and the same person thus proving how different we perceive a face depending on how it is showcased.
I couldn’t find Evie Heigths as an username and asked Michiel Bechir about her. Evie Heights is Evie (Eve Pearl) and I saw her artwork 2 months ago at The 22 art space (read here). Evie is in Second Life for 13 years. You can fin more of her art on her flickr page.

On the ground floor of the gallery you find 2 rooms. The room on the left side features the art of Serenitee Brunswick (Serenitee Bliss). Although most of Serenitee’s pictures show female faces, she places them into different backgrounds. The whole presentation provides a happy and romantic atmosphere, maybe also enhanced by the floor design and the wall paper. Above the entrance is a statement of Serenitee about her art:
“Welcome to my little world of creation. I’v been in Second Life a long while and have experienced many things. Photography has become my number one love. Creating images that tell stories or bring about emotions is very fulfilling. My style go from one end of the spectrum to another. You’ll see abstracts, whimsical, fairy tale, fantasy, heartbreak, eroticism, sensuality, landscapes and just about everything else.”
You can find more of Serenitee’s artwork on her flickr page.

The room on the right side is decorated winterly and snowflakes fall down on the floor out of the nothing. The room features the artwork of Mya Audebarn. Mya is in Second Life since 2009. I couldn’t find much about her, just that she speaks Portugese. Mya has a flickr page and writes there about herself:
“I’m Mya … I don’t introduce myself as a photographer, I don’t have any techniques … I’m someone who uses emotions and feelings … Each photo has some feeling and when someone appreciates or perceives it, I feel really happy. If I can touch hearts, I will feel fulfilled … ”
And yes, her portraits tell a story, they are mysterious and romantic.

On the second floor you find a classic gallery room with the portrait artwork of Rose (rosehanry). The portraits are all with a simple white background, most just show the face, no hair, glasses or jewelery, nothing that distract from the face itself. Rose wrote about this collection of portraits:
“This portraits show the different moods we usual show behind the pc/laptop when we use our avatar… is a minimalist work for the receptor focus on the mood or expression and make in his mind a story and go beyond that face in the portrait.”
More of her art can be found on her flickr page.

Thank you Michiel Bechir for another great exhibition featuring artists who I haven’t come across so far. It’s great to see this variety of portraits, style and ways of presentation. Thank you for providing the space for the arts at Michiel Bechir Galleries and for curating your galleries. Many thanks also to the participating artists. I enjoyed my visit.

Landmark to Michiel Bechir Galleries at Embrace
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Embrace/30/228/2503
Evie (Eve Pearl)’s flickr page
https://www.flickr.com/photos/163063355@N08/
Mya Audebarn’s flickr
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mya_audebarn/
Serenitee Bliss’ flickr
https://www.flickr.com/photos/serenitee/
Rose (rosehanry)’s flickr
https://www.flickr.com/photos/rosehanry

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