April - Muse Isle

It was a woman named Alishia, dressed up as a dragon (they do these 'weird' things in SL;)), who made the aquaintance with a certain JenzZa Misfit - enthusiastic owner of Muse Isle and music lover - and with a perfect gallery, seemingly just waiting for Raspirit's paintings:))

Being as 'traditional' as JenzZa actually is, in terms of exhibiting 'paintings' in SL - it happened to make a very nice transition for Raspirit...still having some sort of 'reality' to relate to:) - while impressions are pouring in, and ideas are brewing.

Still March - SL Debut exhibition at Hardangerfjord

Rain and Kameroon; (and KamRain Bay Reside):

what a wonderful welcome you gave me!

Thank you!

And then there was this incredible person - with all kinds of abilities;

WieBenIk Beaumont - who actually was the one who made it possible; getting the RL paintings in and scripted.

March 2007 - First Exhibition - and 2 Dreamers meet

Raspirit:

During one of my flights I suddenly came upon a place called Hardangerfjord - Tone's homeland-fjord in RL...! - Could it be...?

I descended into a nice little town - not quite like RL... but very likeable - had a great stage area, overseeing the water, which made me think of a friend's music - and it had a feel I liked.... and it had a great 'hot water springs' (in an otherwise chilly/snowy landscape); And while pondering what to do next, Forest Blackthrorne turns up, and naturally we strike up a conversation. he refers me to the owner, Rain Coalcliff - and 'suddenly a hilltop appears' (only SL!:)!) - and I am off to my very first SL exhibition-bringing RL imagery into SL.

But how in the world am I to do this?:))

I need to learn to make paintings in RL come into SL...hm...?

I guess I'll never really know how I came to meet WieBenIk Beaumont -

it 'just happened'.

I landed in a sandbox one day - on my usual non-verbal search

(wasn't at all interested in chat or meeting 'people' - all I could think of was how to get my paintings into this exciting place -)

Somehow we got talking - about putting painting 'textures' onto 'objects' - and the rest is 'history', as they say;

As it turned out WieBenIk could supply all the technical know-how I needed for just this kind of an exhibition, and was also more than accomodating in showing me around the 'editing facilities' - to enable me to get going with exactly what I wanted to do; make an SL exhibition of my RL paintings....to 'introduce ' them.

So - I couldn't have been luckier - meeting Rain, her friends and husband, and then WieBenIk;