Feathers Boa - Heaven/Hell is a Place on Earth

Avatar Name

Feathers Boa

Real Person

Mary *insert unintelligable grunt*

The Build

Heaven/Hell is a Place on Earth

About the Build

I believe we create our on heaven or hell right here on earth. So, I have created a small floating planet hovering above the ground. Tiny clouds swirl around its surface and its oceans roil. A kind of prototypical earth. As the viewer moves closer, they see more details. Golden spires in the clouds, angels, etc. "Heaven." As they move even closer, they see more details on the surface. Tiny cities, mountains, lakes, etc. "Earth." As they move ever closer, heaven and earth vanish in smoke and fire and HELL is revealed within the globe. A torturous mass of torment in a cacophony of imagery, layer upon layer of Boschian surrealism.

About the Artist

I am very new to the art scene here and I'm enjoying the vibrant and creative work being created by some incredibly talented artists. Mostly I'm just enjoying exploring the fantasmagoric world of swirling pixels we call Second Life. My SL art tends to be "reactive" (responding to the proximity of the viewer and changing appearance or revealing hidden imagery) and also has a multi-layered textured look which sometimes incorporates animation and effects.

Artist Biography

Feathers Boa is the avatar of a 21 year old female art student from the Boston (U.S.) area. She creates richly textured and incredibly detailed digital paintings that blend modernist and antique styles seamlessly. To create the pieces, she trolls junk shops and back alleys to find interesting objects such as old sepia photos, newspapers, postcards, letters, broken watches, etc. She either photographs these objects using a consumer grade Nikon digital camera or uses her Epson RX580 scan bed to scan them directly into Photoshop CS3. These "found" objects usually form the central images of her pieces. But she also uses Cinema 4D r10 to create wholly digital 3D objects. She sees textures everywhere and never leaves home without her camera in her handbag or backpack. Her life partner and friends often get frustrated with her when she stops suddenly in mid-conversation to take a picture of a particularly interesting section of sidewalk or some rusty piece of metal.

Images of the Build