"Metempsyche's Garden" is a place of mysterious metaphysics, of reincarnation. A fish is reborn as a mermaid, who is herself reborn as a human. The human is reborn as a winged spirit, who is finally reborn as a moth. The cycle repeats and overlaps and turns in on itself, capturing the evolution of life from the sea to the land to the air, with the lovely insect finally inheriting the earth. This process takes place in the stark beauty of black and white, in a garden of exquisitely-detailed seaweed. Best viewed at World/Environment Settings/Midnight.
The focus of the build is ephemeral giant particles, which are actually high-resolution jpegs of digital drawings created with Corel Painter using a Wacom digitizing tablet and stylus. The SL audience sees the work in all its RL detail.
"Metempsyche's Garden" is situated in a beautiful landscape installation by Keith Extraordinaire. Check out the gorgeous trees, wondrous sculpty rocks, flower-speckled grass, stroll down to the sea crashing along the coast, then return and sit in the Seaweed Throne and lose yourself in the imagery. Three of the artist's kinetic sculpty works are also on view in this location.
Alizarin will be present at the opening.
Highlights from Ali's SL resume include "mesmerEyes: alizarin's visions" at Artemesia (August 200
, " Sunfire Gallery Grand Opening" (July 200, "Alizarin Goldflake: Selections from The Georg Janick Collection" at New Caerleon (July - October 200, "Treasure Hunt" at Crecscent Moon Museum (June 200, "Alizarin Goldflake: Selected Immersive Art" at Artis Gallery at DDB Live (June -September 200, "Floating World: Immersive Art at the Marina" at Bissorte Marina (May 200, and "SECOND LIGHT: Alizarin Goldflake and Elros Tuominen" at the Kirkness Art Center ( February 200, "No Matter" at Ars Virtua ( February 200, and the Oyster Bay Anniversary Show (January 200.Alizarin has been a RL professional visual artist for a long time. She shows in several prominent RL galleries, and her work is included in many RL museum, corporate, and private collections.