The now basically completed Power Tower Gallery housing the Gilatona-Lis 4 part creation has a new home on the Mabebaleia continent of Second Life. I call it simply the “Power Tower Gowlery” Town or PTG Town for short. I’m still a renter (LaMa Estates – highly recommended), but I’ve shifted over from Sansara Snow Country to this green continent, adding a 1024 to my former 4096 in the process for a total of 5120 square meters leased now. And that 1024 seems to make all the difference, amazingly enough. I’m in about the same shape land-wise as I was after the creation of the last series of the Art 10×10 in Spring 2009, specifically when I started leasing land in Noru on the Jeogeot continent near Chilbo — same amount of land involved each time (5120 sm). And in each case I had a new collage series to show off to the virtual world if they chose. I’m not sure I’ll return to a larger Pietmond or New Pietmond situation now, which involves 8704 sm and then some, or close to twice the amount of land I have now in PTG Town. I think I’ve given up at hosting galleries of other artists, real life friends and/or fellow collagists all, and returned to a more personal, subjective realm, with the pivot now being PTG and Gilatona-Lis.
Many familiar buildings of Pietmond and New Pietmond have been re-rezzed in PTG Town, but many haven’t as well. My focus now is on the taller buildings cultivated in more recent times, like the extremely high Power Tower Gallery itself, topping off at probably 200+ meters. This very tall structure — the center of the town as stated — needs other tall buildings around it to act as visual balances, seemingly. Like the Tower of A. Mann, inserted into PTG Town’s geographic heart. Like the similarly new skyscraper that still doesn’t have a name but houses the 20 collages of the Wheeler-Jasper series now, the last of the Art 10×10 collages created in 2009. Like the 12 story Kidd Tower, a New Pietmond carryover, located on the east side of town opposite the PTG. Around these are plugged in other structures I use to think were pretty high but are now dwarfed by the newcomers, including Pietmond/New Pietmond’s Quadtowers of TILE (housing the Baker Bloch in England exhibit) and the Coolie Building, originally called the Crooked Tower I believe.
The TILE Temple has not returned, but instead we have the NORRIS Temple (below: left), a substitution also made in Boris, Jeogeot if you happen to remember back that far. Not sure what I’ll do with that yet. But most of the PTG Tower buildings are now complete or filled or “fully cultivated” as I put it above. For many of these structures, this fulfillment has happened gradually over a rather long period of time.
You actually have at least a glimpse of 8 separate structures in the below SL snapshot.
It seems to be a good setup and I think I can reside in this PTG Town for a number of months, perhaps even until I return from England in early July. That’s the current plan anyhoot. I’ll provide more details soon on the town’s various ins and outs. My goal is to have about 200 prims free for future experimenting at any one time, which I’m just meeting now.
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