I have been doing a little bit of exploring lately and found a couple of places I thought were of interest.
The first is called Zenescope. Linden Lab has partnered with Zenescope Entertainment, a comic book and graphic novel publisher, to create a region with a quest – to find Cinderella Monroe, aka Cindy, who has been wreaking havoc by breaking into shops and stealing merchandise, amongst other things.
You enter the sim through a portal and if you wish to follow the quest to find Cindy you can pick up a HUD right at the entrance which gives clues and guides you throughout the sim. By using the HUD you will be able to gain credits which will allow you to pass through a second portal once it is open. You can also feel free just to explore but it is fun to follow the clues and pick up some prizes and credits.
A second discovery I made is a wonderful exhibition at the Cape Able Art Gallery where the work of Tucker Stilley is on display.
Tucker Stilley is an American artist born in California in 1961. The art on display at the Cape Able gallery is part of a collection of his works he calls calls “Palimpsessed” which derives from the word “palimpsest”. Palimpsest originally meant “a parchment or the like from which writing has been partially or completely erased to make room for another text” (dictionary.com) Parchments were extremely expensive and so were often reused after the original writing had been erased. Because of this previous layers would sometimes show through. Now palimpsest is used in a more general way “something that has a new layer, aspect or appearance that builds on its past and allows us to see or perceive parts of the past” (dictionary.com) In the same entry on palimpsest there is a quote “Memory is a palimpsest that is continually being written over, but never perfectly so” (dictionary.com) While looking at Stilley’s works you can see the multiple layers making up the picture, revealing and covering each other, so that one image comes from a few other images which are not completely visible in themselves.
The Cape Able Gallery displays exhibitions by deaf and/or disabled artists. Tucker Stilley has been creating art his whole life but in 2005 he was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s Disease/Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and so now uses adaptive technology to create his artworks. To see an interview with Tucker Stilley by Draxtor Depres click here .
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