MindScapes by Xirana Oximoxi

Xirana Oximoxi / Nuria Vives is our first artist in the 2D-area; she says:
"I’m a Catalan artist. My works reflect my concerns and my different moods. They are based on my experiences and express a personal sensitivity nourished by impressions from the external world and my internal world. In this latter sense, I like to call them abstractions or  'mental landscapes'. The works reflect the influences of impressionism, expressionism, abstract expressionism, etc."
Mindscapes by Xirana: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Nice%20Atoll/78/150/1003 .
"Can we see the landscape hidden behind the eyes of a lost child surrounded by destruction? Through our eyes we fuse and dissolve gradually with the world around us, losing our distinctive outline. These works show some human faces that become 'transparent' to let us have a glimpse to our inner landscapes, to how our experiences and environments come into us to shape our thoughts, our feelings and emotions.
I usually work with different mediums, oil, watercolor, acrylic, ink, charcoal and pastel.
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You can purchase original Art works, small format, at my Etsy shop:
https://www.etsy.com/es/shop/NuriaVivesArt ".

Aural Blossoms by Artistic Oluja / Littlewing

Littlewing (Artistic Oluja) is another artist participating in the MindScape-project and has created an audio-visual sculpture with the following explanation:
"This piece is inspired by the idea that music evokes a map of emotions in our brains, as demonstrated in a recent study https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/327430#2-different-cultures,-similar-responses. The research mapped different emotions that are evoked by listening to different types of music, as demonstrated in this interactive neuro-map here: https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~acowen/music.html#
"Aural Blossoms" is an visual-audio experiment in which I've played with a collage of colourful textures, incorporating kaleidescope patterns I created out of second life snapshots as well as music visualization wave patterns produced in the iOS beta app "Endlesss." The idea is to portray the sensation of music that blossoms in your headspace, evoking a landscape of emotion as you listen to different sounds that guide your mood.
The music was created in the iOS beta app called "Endlesss," By my artist name Littlewing, in collaboration with other musicians (Mostlyjustj, Modulargrey, Theau, Thesaxophonewarrior)  using multiple looping tracks that overlay each other and are controlled by user interaction in Second Life. The Endlesss app also produced visual wave forms which have been incorporated into the texturing of the piece. Special thanks to Zzyzx for his kind help with the scripts :)
Click the individual rings to turn individual layers on and off, click the lower half of the installation to dance inside the rings.
Hope you enjoy it."
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Nice%20Atoll/145/95/3686 .

State Of Mind by June Clavenham

June Clavenham was born and lives in Montevideo, Uruguay. studied art with Alamón, Montani, Aroztegui, and Taller Subte. She studied photography at Taller Aquelarre and had exhibitions at both private and goverment facilities. She says about her work in Second Life:
"Many years ago digital art grew on me as a new and innovative way of expressing, as it is created in a non traditional way and seen in a different media.  Initially based on fractals, and using different software to bring shapes and colors to a new dimension, I am interested in exploring the options brought to us by the development of technology.
I had exhibitions in many places dedicated to art in SL, including UWA and LEA".
Her contribution for MindScape is a sculpture called "State Of Mind" and her comment says:
""State of Mind” intends to be a visual representation of how the thoughts we choose to entertain in our minds affect our emotions, the way we perceive our realitiy, the way we interact with others, and in general, all of our being and our lives":

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Nice%20Atoll/114/80/3686 .