SL cultural event : Loquacia Loon - Botanica

Loquacia Loon

Loquacia was born in July 2007 and didn’t really find true purpose in her Second Life existence until she discovered that photography is one of the best ways to enjoy and participate in the creativity of Second Life.

She started posting pictures to Koinup (www.koinup.com) as a way of recording her every day adventures, but soon discovered that there were people making amazing art from their in-world photographs, and the hunger to make strong images of her own was created. Many of the photographers she most admired have become friends and she thanks them for their ongoing encouragement and feedback.

Loquacia started taking landscape pictures when she joined the Wandering Photographers group led by Elspeth Writer, and became fascinated by the (recreated!) natural world, especially of trees and flowers - both those native to Second Life and those introduced by settlers.

She is also fascinated by windows - the way that images are framed, and refracted or transformed by layers of glass - and is working on a project to take photos from windows across Second Life.

Loquacia’s real life counterpart is not an artist (but is amazed and grateful to have this opportunity to connect with this neglected part of herself) but works with words as a creative writing teacher, teacher-trainer, writer and literary blogger : http://thebookaholic.blogspot.com. In 2011 she became a small-press publisher with a first collection of writings, Readings From Readings from the literary event she organises : (http://www.amazon.com/Readings-New-Malaysian-Writing/dp/9671029205). She is British, but has lived in Malaysia for the past 27 years (yeah, she’s a little older than her glam avi!) and hopes to encourage more of Malaysia’s arts community into Second Life.

She's happy to stop and chat about SL photography or RL writing!

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