"Taxy! to the Zircus"

There's a new artistic build at the MetaLES sim, "Taxy! to the Zircus."  By Eupalinos Ugajin, this surreal looking exhibition invites visitors to become part of the artwork by clicking on it. Both Gemma Cleanslate and Fritter Enzyme took a look. So what did they think?

Read Gemma and Fritter's reviews in Design.

Papermakis

Earlier in August, I heard about an unusual place: Papermakis. Mentioned in a Second Life art blog, the place was made as a kind of artwork, one that was a “limited-time art exhibition.”


Welcome to the world of Papermakis, a creative place inspired by newspapers, books, articles, drawings and paper. Visit this limited-time art exhibition by Romy Nayar at MetaLES before it disappears in early August. More info at: http://metalesperformance.blogspot.com.


Porting over to the MetalLES sim, the place was ... odd. It was a surreal landscape of white with random letters sprinked across. There were occasional structures that looked like wrapped-up paper-mache newsprint. There were even paper-mache people and critters. Going about, I saw some variety in the structures. Black wire “trees” would drop solid black spheres onto the ground. A few structures would leak ink, or a stream of letters. In a couple places a few paper-mache creatures were spewing clouds of “O”s or “H”s. In a few places the “people” were socializing, or in one place cleaning up piles of letters.

Among the displays of paper-mache people, there was a paper-mache avatar. Named Ux Hax, or “Per4mancE” as the display name read, I tried talking to the person, but the av was away from keyboard. So I sent an Instant massage before heading off. Later on, the artist messaged me back, identifying herself as Romy Nayar:

Ux Hax: Instalation interactive 3D, Women artists and creators of SL ,expose each for a month in Sim MetaLES..O.. Promoting culture and art in the Metaverse. Performance always accompanied by special music for the event: http://metalesperformance.blogspot.com, Art.

Intended as a temporary exhibit, Papermakis didn’t last too long and was soon taken down. But it still exists in a machinima taken by ColeMarie Soleil. And Ux Hax/Romy Nayar was soon back with another exhibit in the MetaLES sim.



Bixyl Shuftan