Tag: automaton

Silence

The silence invades it all, the dim of light is scarse.

My home forces introspection: the old clock, the old books, the high ceilings and long doors, wooden floors and the sutil smell of inciense.

I like it, I like to be obsessed with my insights…Even if the void can go both ways.

Teeth start to bite each other…Yet, in the search of pain, I ride the storm.

It has been a time since I the idea to do this picture. Being in victorian and steampunk sims, since almost day one, made me love the ways of dark victorians: prim and proper from the outside, rotten in the inside. The aesthetic of my automaton always evolves around it.

I wanted a sort of collodionish picture – I add the “ish” because if you know basics of photography is imposible to do it, unless you actually do a wet collodion picture-. The quality of product made with collodion is imposible to imitate, and has a sort of volumetric feel that is hypnotizing.

AHIRU -Silent Devotion –

I went to one of my favourite sims with the plan to take a picture, and eventually  photoshop it into a painting, to have displayed on my digital fireplace. So why not make a picture just because.

As it is common knowledge, the victorian times were a restrictive society in the surface, yet things are always more complex. The Lenguaje of Flowers was a kind of dictionary of what flowers meant, in order to say what was badly seen with words or could not be done so easily, such as a declaration of love or an insult.*

Apparently for the victorians the hydrangeas were a symbol of dispassion and were given to heartless person, so if you were given this flower, you were in trouble. The Hydrangeas change color when the ph of the soil is too alkaline, turning from blue to pink, so they were meant for someone voluble.

In Japan it seems they have a bad note too, yet they also have a beautiful meaning, as it stands for silent devotion**.

So on this note, blueberrys stand for eternal optimism, raspberrys for matters of the heart, and the camellias for devotion, gratitude and spiritual growth. So all in all we have a beautiful story here…only waiting to be told.

* https://archive.org/details/languageofflower00gree/page/10

* http://blog.alientimes.org/2011/06/hydrangea-ajisai-%E7%B4%AB%E9%99%BD%E8%8A%B1-in-japanese-history-and-culture-revisited/

Hair pice by lode and kimono by Zenith.

Here is the LM if someone wants to take a stroll:

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Ahiru/56/42/2502