Daily Archives: February 13, 2015

Collagesity is really shaping up. The core galleries are basically finished, and even the Red Umbrella, the newest addition to this group, seems pretty complete in perhaps partial form (1st Floor, but I need to polish up some of the collage drafts still). Town Hall is the new hub of it all, introducing visitors to my Sunklands website, with old Sunklands magazines also lying about. Town Map is updated. Starbucanner Barista is behind the desk, ready for service. Blue and red and grey robots offer directional tips. A Jasper County map adorns the floor, and the same is found in all the core galleries now. “What’s *that* all about?” a befuddled visitor might ask. I’m now asking what the Red Umbrella is, that seems to act as a, well, umbrella term for the whole shebang.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/umbrella

4: something which covers or embraces a broad range of elements or factors

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Fog on one side…

… rain on the other…

I have 333 prims left to play around with in Collagesity. The outlying galleries and buildings, as I’ll call them, remain to be developed. Some do not even have a name yet. They lie as far outside the umbrella as possible while still within[ Collagesity]. Even the TILE Chapel is incomplete, since Carrcassonnee remains without Eye. At least 2 Perches exist in the village presently, one in Town Diner (basically complete that one is), and the other in Collagesity Underground, directly beneath the Red Umbrella gallery. Can we combine Perch and Carrcassonnee again, like was done early on in Collagesity, Noru?

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One of the outlying buildings. Future “World of Collages”?

Hub:

Town Hall

Core galleries:

Toxic Art (finished)
Power Tower (finished)
Fal Mouth Moon (finished)
Sam Parr (finished)
Red Umbrella (working on this one, 1st Floor basically complete — depends on where the Embarras collage series takes me (!))

Supporting buildings:

North Side:

Rubi Museum (unfinished)
Crooked Building/Coolie Building (incomplete?)
“World of Collages”? (unfinished)

South Side:

X Spot Gallery (incomplete)
Town Diner (finished?)
Bodega Market (finished)
Kidd Tower (finished)
TILE Chapel (incomplete[ Carr. remains without Eye])
Norum Gallery (complete)

Center:

Collagesity Underground (2 parts; incomplete)
Skybox? (projected)

fog and rain

SoSo Gallery containing the still evolving Embarras collage series (up to 9 now!) has been renamed The Red Umbrella, with a corresponding switch in signs.

Baker Bloch heads around the corner to check the changes out. A light rain is falling outside the gallery (!).

Then underneath mainly The Red Umbrella has formed a type of small Collagesity Underground with 7 separate rooms. Below we find Baker standing in a foggy, open area between the 2 structures of this underground, taking in the odd scenery. A pack of dogs exist here, perhaps attracted by the trash.

Strange do’in’s already within these small rooms. It’s all very much still in development, and I envision some kind of gallery eventually.

Open area from the opposite angle…

The way to the underground from the west…

…and from the east.

I do not have a name for this east-west passage through here, but in its original, undug form it was called Jack Street, because of the presence of Gallery Jack all along the northern side. Gallery Jack has since been replaced with the Toxic Art Gallery. A smaller portion of The Underground lies beneath it — 2 rooms, as opposed to 5 beneath The Red Umbrella and also neighboring Norum Gallery a bit.

Town Hall is also shaping up, a new entry point for the village.

Some of the other new things in Collagesity: