Daily Archives: November 19, 2012

Although the number of kiosked Second Life galleries is down from several years back, there are still about 9 in the Sunklands area alone. My X-Spot Gallery is marked by the lowest of the orange squares in the above screen save from this art galleries of Second Life map, with each of these squares representing a gallery kiosk obtained through Sasun Steinbeck’s wonderful system.

Baker Bloch on the top floor of the Tower of TILE, a supplemental gallery to the X-Spot looming below him here.

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Hucka D., want to comment on the above photos?

Hucka D.:

Nah.

Continuing from X-Spot Gallery, Wing 01a, next we view “Trouble in Store”…

… and then on the wall across from it, the enigmatic “What’s Behind the Red Door?” I believe this is also the largest work of X-Spot’s Kollage Kid kollection, er, collection.

“Road Trip” (left) and “Elephantasmagoria” (right).

Straight ahead: “Cactus House”, a nice, compact black and white effort.

Then across from it we have another b&w collage exhibited beside the resting Baker Bloch here, named “What Lies Beneath”. Reminds me a bit of “Who Left That Tap Running?” from the upwards part of this wing.

The witty “I Remember the Incident at the Canal”. Do *you*?

“Found Heads” — there are a number of these type of collages in Michael’s work depicting a row of women and/or men whose appearance have been uniformly altered.

“nowhere town2.” Strangely enough I think I want to actually visit!

“Madonna and Egg”, made from Tunnock’s Tea Cake wrapper foil, old scrap and cut outs, according to Michael’s flickr page on the work. A bit different from the rest of those here.

And we leave this wing with “Victorian Seaside Holiday drawbacks No. 237” to the left and “Mr. Archimboldo” to the right, with another NYC background for the latter.

Super job Michael!

Wing 01 of 04 of the newly established X-Spot Gallery features 25 collages from Kollage Kid, or Brit artist Michael Leigh in real life. I describe his collage technique as quintessential toward the end of this Pietmond review from January. I’ll let the pictures do most of the talking, along with providing titles of each here. Please check out the Laughing Shed blog for more information about Michael’s exciting work.

As we head up into this wing of the X-Spot, we have the similarly punning “Wall Flower” to the right and “Flower Mill” to the left. Nice start.

“Freudsters”. Luv this one.

“Ant Invasion”.

And in a similar mode, once more, we have “Who Left That Tap Running?” just further up.

Then “Hula Hoop Party” across the wall from it…

… and “Time Travel” on an adjacent wall to both of the last 2 collages pictured above.

“Noah’s Submarine”, hehe, and, to the right of it here, “Cafe of Earthly Delights,” a cute and clever spoof of Hieronymus Bosch’s famed “Garden of Earthly Delights” triptych.

The marvelous “Bill Haley Fans”. You guys remember “Rock around the Clock” don’t you?

Another New York City disaster collage similar to “Ant Invasion”, this one called “The Great Flood”. Since taking this picture of Kollage Kid’s work, the Statue of Liberty and NYC as a whole have come up in another guise within this blog.

“Space Laundry” (left) and “The Gem Polishers” (right).

The most excellent “Drowning in Germs”. We’ve reached the top level of this wing.

X-Spot Gallery, Wing 01b