Looking straight down from about 150 meters up, one can see the 'neighborhood' of our Gallery.  There are about one hundred square miles of this kind of 'territory' that have been developed, so far, in Second Life.

The little figure to the left, hovering in mid-air, is 'taking a picture of himself from way behind himself'. There's a feeling of freedom in being able to fly and even take pictures from 'where you're not'.  The color of our tower at 'sunset' shifts to bronze, As the sun dips toward the horizon (note bluish colors in the other photos further down the page)

Linda's new painting (my name is Fred) has become the main feature of our tower's frontage side, and we're looking it over at close range.  Can you see the little figures hovering in mid-air by the hula dancer's head?  They're pretty small.  In the next photo down the page, you'll be able to see these to 'residents'  of Second Life at closer range.  How nice it is, to be able to 'fly'!

Here we are at the Tower's entry.  Within, you see a large waterfall (the dynamics of water flow are fantastic, and the sound of rushing water is very realistic).  You see, high on the wall, a slide show running 'big screen' style, with a red hibiscus at the moment.  To the right, a huge tri-plane with twenty four photographs of Hawaiian flowers slowly rotates in a tub of water that looks as if it could be unrefined gold ore.

Linda's (Alegria's) new painting, used as a mural, is also part of the 'slide show' running on the big screen, and it's 'captured' here.  Also, notice that the triplane with photographs of flowers has rotated a bit in all three axes, so that the composite image it offers never stops moving.  Some things like this would be extremely expensive to make in 'real life'.  Here, in Second Life, one can purchase a 'copy' of the largest flower-triplane we make for less than one dollar U.S.

At the very top level of the Gallery, as a waterfall roars in the background, and the setting sun produces a glow on the railing and in the sky through the massive windows, we look at a huge framed painting of a seaside sunrise named "Arriving Goddess".  This is not just a painting, but a slide show, and we await the showing of "Kumu Hula" in a special frame of her own.

A few seconds later, "Kumu Hula" fills the screen.  Here, we can enjoy it 'full width', without the cropping that was required to make a vertical mural for the building.  This is only the barest beginning of our gallery, and you've seen less than one tenth of it.