.lovelysweet.

The weapon was heavy, well weighted, and old but in impecable condition. Tess glanced at her old friend and grinned mirthlessly. "You have always known what I like". He raised an eyebrow, then frowned at her. "You know I completely disapprove of what you are about to do" he said, a somber tone to his accented voice. "I know, Professor." Tess looked away at the Bloodmoon rising in the sky. She knew what she was about to do. Kill the bastard that has killed her Vincent. No, not just kill him, anihilate him and his entire Coven. She had already hunted down all of the renegade vampires that had been involved the night of the raid in which Vincent had died protecting her and the others. She made sure they suffered. She relished every  moment of the hunt and the kill. "Revenge is never good" said the professor again, his voice heavy. He sighed. Tess turned and looked at his face, old and lined with heavy laugh lines. The old man stood ta...

I was honored to be asked to show some of my art work with a collaborative of artists from the Transylvania Art Series at the Vampyre Cultural Center in Second Life . While I have not done many public shows lately, I still do like to create. I have chosen to blog to release some of my creative energy but every so often I will take on the challenge for a bit more.. and this was really just  waiting to come out. There is a lot of allegory and allusion to many themes here, but mainly the concept of the heavenly and the earthly, of the violence perpetrated in the name of "God" and the concept of dark fantasy and horror blending into something that pulls you in despite you wanting to look away.  I want to thank the creators who make the lovely and amazing things we wear and use for our photos and art. This piece would not have been possible without the creations from the following:  Tattoo: Endless Pain,  Alariel @ The Alchemy mask: P sycho Byts, De...

I was very excited when Ados invited me to show at their gallery in Transylvania . I loved the gallery, the theme and the sim overall, and it fit my usual themes of dark fantasy in general. This time however I  was pondering what I would present, and I was told I had a large show space, with the ability to show my work any way I wanted, which was daunting as well as thrilling! So, I decided to explore the concept of our humanity and how we fell, so to speak, when Even chose to take that apple from the Tree of Knowledge in the Christian, Western Theological tradition. I am an eternal optimist, and my take on it was that Eve was not a sinner. She was courageous. She may have disobeyed but she did so because she wanted knowledge, and everyone knows that once we have acquired knowledge, there is no going back to being blissfully ignorant. Knowledge is power. Knowledge is strength. And the fact that it was a woman who dared to defy the Creator is even more  significant to ...