User:Daequix Scarborough

Second Life: a series of endless possibilities

Second Life has become an outlet for my creativity in so many ways… I have to admit when I first arrived in SL, I wasn’t sure I’d stay. It seemed all about the shopping, and the clubbing until we finally bought our first land. That was the first I opened up Photoshop for anything other than to draw a box or by accident when I wanted to view a picture. I actually designed my first texture for SL. From that day forward, it became one possibility after another as I began to forge this emotional channel. I pursue many avenues: skin design, fabric design and accompanying fashion design, Victorian wear and most recently virtual photography and post production.

I express myself in many ways, through color, shading, filtering, texturing and in black and white. A tumble of emotions and many trial and errors occur, until it feels right. I joke often that I could never hope to recreate some of my better pieces...I don’t know how I got there. Sometimes that’s a blessing in disguise.

Art to me is about the feelings, and emotion it stimulates in the viewer. If something moves me, or causes a sudden memory to well up, then I pursue it…those are the times I hope that others have a reaction. Whether it was a want, a dream, an idea or even a fancy….

Flickr Side: http://www.flickr.com/photos/7369556@N02/