{"id":6852,"date":"2022-07-18T00:45:03","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T05:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.zoha-islands.com\/?p=6852"},"modified":"2022-07-18T00:45:03","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T05:45:03","slug":"the-melt-and-a-story-of-h-is-second-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/the-melt-and-a-story-of-h-is-second-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Melt and a story of H is Second\u00a0Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\">The Melt and a story of H is Second Life<\/h1>\n<div class=\"entry-meta\"><span class=\"posted-on\">Posted on <\/span><span class=\"byline\"><span class=\"byline-prefix\">by<\/span> <span class=\"author vcard\"><a class=\"url fn n\" href=\"https:\/\/modemworld.me\/author\/peysworld\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Inara Pey<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<figure class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52214087884_2a55b1be2c_3k.jpg\" width=\"3072\" height=\"1152\" \/>\n<figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Lovr&amp;Love Factory Art Gallery: Selen Minotaur \u2013 H<\/em><\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p data-adtags-visited=\"true\">Two immersive exhibitions are awaiting discovery at the Love&amp;Love Factory Art Gallery that are well worth visiting by anyone who appreciates art with a message and a story in Second Life, produced as they are by two artists skilled in the art of narrative presentation.<\/p>\n<p data-adtags-visited=\"true\">Before getting into details, these are two installations that should be experienced with the following enabled in the viewer:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Advanced Lighting Model (ALM) \u2013 Preferences \u2192 Graphics \u2192 make sure Advanced Lighting Model enabled. Note that you <em>do not<\/em> need to have Shadows enabled (should ALM activate them) \u2013 while projectors are used, it is sufficient to just have ALM enabled to see them in action, so Shadows can be safely disabled via the drop-down to improve performance.<\/li>\n<li>Shared Environment should be used for best viewing of both installations (World \u2192 Environment \u2192 make sure Use Shared Environment is checked.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52214281890_f2d4454145_3k.jpg\" width=\"3072\" height=\"1152\" \/>\n<figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Lovr&amp;Love Factory Art Gallery: London Junkers \u2013 The Melt<\/em><\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p data-adtags-visited=\"true\">The first of the pairing \u2013 and I use that term loosely, as these are very much individual installations is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/maps.secondlife.com\/secondlife\/Incanto\/9\/60\/2099\"><em>The Melt<\/em><\/a> by London Junkers.<\/p>\n<p data-adtags-visited=\"true\">This is a single, magnificent sculpture, framed by a poem \u2013 also called <em>The Melt<\/em> \u2013 set within an environment suggestive of the sea and under a night sky, both of which evoke a sense of age. The centerpiece might be an iceberg or the face of a glacier; cold and blue, it seems timeless \u2013 but pieces have clearly broken away and are caught mid-fall, hinting at the actual state of things \u2013 the vast piece is in fact melting and breaking, caught in a continuous state of flux.<\/p>\n<p data-adtags-visited=\"true\">It is a state of flux mirrored by the poem itself. Outside of the skeleton of the long-dead great whale, details might not be immediately apparent \u2013 but look closely and you might start to make out features: the suggestion of a broken nose here, the outside of an eye, the drop of icy tears.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52212832892_7d7c163712_3k.jpg\" width=\"3072\" height=\"1152\" \/>\n<figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Lovr&amp;Love Factory Art Gallery: London Junkers \u2013 The Melt<\/em><\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p data-adtags-visited=\"true\">What do we make of this? To me, <em>The Melt<\/em> sits as a commentary on the existential threat of global warming; of all we stand to lose if the required actions needed to curb our own massive contribution to the increasing rate of climate change are not taken: that the loss of the glaciers and ice caps is but the precursor to the loss of all life itself, as symbolized by the whale skeleton and the bones of human at the foot of the sculpture.<\/p>\n<p data-adtags-visited=\"true\">Meanwhile, Selen Minotaur presents <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.secondlife.com\/secondlife\/Incanto\/57\/10\/3409\"><em>H<\/em><\/a>, a multi-media immersive piece offering its own statement of life \u2013 both physical and virtual. Within it, we follow the story of \u201cH\u201d; a neutral character whose very initial suggests either male \u201cH(im)\u201d and female \u201cH(er)\u201d, and their travel through life, told in part through local chat and through our following the path through a \u201cmaze\u201d which eventually leads to a series of rooms \u2013 or rather, boxes.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2><em>Once upon a time\u2026H. Since H was born, H loved boxes. H started to build some as soon as H was able to. So H was sleeping in a box, H was eating in a box, H was working in a box, H was shopping in different boxes. When H wanted to have fun, H was visiting dedicated boxes: one to meet friends, one to dance, one to listen to music, one to watch a show, and so on. Even after death, H planned to be laid down and locked in a box. Isn\u2019t this weird?\u2026<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52212806262_24a1d6b965_k.jpg\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1187\" \/>\n<figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Lovr&amp;Love Factory Art Gallery: Selen Minotaur \u2013 H<\/em><\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p data-adtags-visited=\"true\">Again, the core theme is clear; through the maze, we follow H as they try to make sense of life; then through the various rooms (be sure to accept the Experience when prompted at the end of the maze by walking into the sign, and then walk into the additional signs to be auto-TP\u2019d between rooms).<\/p>\n<p data-adtags-visited=\"true\">Within these rooms we witness the places and activities H users to define their life \u2013 be sure to sit on objects, click walls to activate media, etc). However, this is not intended to be purely a means to put us on the strange journey of someone called \u201cH\u201d; rather it is a reflection how we all increasingly live our lives; reliant as we increasingly are on the role of \u201cboxes\u201d \u2013 devices, electronics, apps (including Second Life, where we spend all our time in \u201cboxes\u201d \u2013 regions), and so on for our sense of connection and engagement. That despite all the so-called promise of a \u201cconnected world\u201d offered by the Internet, the web, and \u2013 as the hype would have it \u2013 \u201cthe metaverse\u201d, we are perhaps becoming more an more insular in our search for \u201cmeaning\u201d (or at least engagement) in life.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52214294250_f74b6fbe30_3k.jpg\" width=\"3072\" height=\"1152\" \/>\n<figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Lovr&amp;Love Factory Art Gallery: Selen Minotaur \u2013 H<\/em><\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p data-adtags-visited=\"true\">Both <em>H<\/em> and <em>The Melt<\/em> are marvellously expressive and deeply layered in the potential for interpretation and consideration.<\/p>\n<h3>SLurl Details<\/h3>\n<p data-adtags-visited=\"true\">Incanto is rated Adult<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.secondlife.com\/secondlife\/Incanto\/23\/4\/21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Love&amp;Love Factory Art Gallery main landing<\/a> (use the teleport disk to reach installations)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.secondlife.com\/secondlife\/Incanto\/9\/60\/2099\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Melt direct SLurl<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.secondlife.com\/secondlife\/Incanto\/57\/10\/3409\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">H direct Surl<\/a> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Have A Great Week From All Of Us At Zoha Islands\/Fruit Islands<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Melt and a story of H is Second Life Posted on by Inara Pey Lovr&amp;Love Factory Art Gallery: Selen Minotaur \u2013 H Two immersive exhibitions are awaiting discovery at the Love&amp;Love Factory Art Gallery that are well worth visiting by anyone who appreciates art with a message and a story in Second Life, produced &hellip; 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