This isn’t my usual all-fashion-focused The Spiritor Edit, but every once in a while I find something in Second Life that I love enough that I have to bring it over here anyway. So we’re doing something a little different today, sharing Cassidy June Art along with some pretty simple fashion choices because I couldn’t completely forget why we’re here. (You can find a full post over at LuckySpiritor.Com)
And honestly, Cassidy June Art could have very easily ended up as one of those things I landmarked, loved, and then somehow forgot to come back to.
I came across her work on Facebook by chance, popped over to the Bullseye store in the City of Portofino, and made a landmark so I could come back when I had time to actually look through everything. I eventually did, and apparently looking meant buying three or four pieces before I left.
That was probably two months before Cassidy opened her gallery. When she did, I obviously had to go see it, and that’s when I realized there was a whole lot more happening here than really good drawings of food.
First, these aren’t pieces Cassidy is sitting at a computer and creating specifically for Second Life. She makes them by hand in the real world using colored pencils, markers, ink, acrylic paint, and other traditional materials. She shares videos of the process online too, so you can actually watch a blank piece of paper slowly become cheesecake, pizza, wings, a fortune cookie, a hot dog, or whatever else she’s working on.
Then you can walk into Second Life and see it hanging on a wall.
I just think that’s incredibly cool.
There’s also a little more behind how Cassidy got here. She explains near the entrance that art began as a way to keep her hands active during physical therapy. Cooking and baking were things she loved but couldn’t do in quite the same way anymore, so rather than making food in the kitchen, she started making it on paper.
Eventually, those pieces found their way here too.
Once you start wandering around the gallery, you’ll also figure out pretty quickly that the food is only part of it. Cassidy builds collections around the stories connected to what she’s drawing, and suddenly you’re standing in front of diner food reading about Route 66.
“Sweet and Sour” gets into Chinese-American food and the history behind it. “Local Dialect” uses regional hot dogs to show how differently we’ve managed to dress up basically the same thing depending on where we live. There are collections about tailgating, Korean street food, cereal advertising, doughnuts, coffee, candy, theme parks, freakshakes, and a whole lot more.
Then there’s “Corner Piece.”
This one is grocery-store birthday cake, and please tell me you know exactly what I’m talking about.
The piped border. The buttercream flowers. Somebody’s name across the middle. Frosting in colors that absolutely should not occur naturally.
And everybody knew the corner piece was the best one.
The middle was fine. The edge was better. The corner had even more frosting, and if you got the corner with the rose? You won the birthday party.
Nobody explained these rules to us. We just knew.
That’s what I really like about Cassidy’s gallery. Some of the collections will send you down an actual history rabbit hole, while others will have you standing there thinking about grocery-store birthday cake and wondering why you haven’t thought about it in twenty years.
And the whole thing is still growing.
There are empty frames throughout the gallery because Cassidy hasn’t made everything yet. “Freak Shakes” is finished with all ten pieces; some collections have a few, and others are basically waiting for her to sit down in the real world and make whatever is going to hang there next.
I’ve already gotten to watch some of those empty spaces fill, and I think that’s one of the coolest parts. You can come back a month from now, and the gallery might actually be different.
I kept the styling pretty simple for this one because, obviously, we’re here for the art. I went with the Aftermath shirt, Spade Trousers, and Monkassin shoes from [Deadwool] and took the photos right inside Cassidy’s gallery. Honestly, there wasn’t much reason to build anything myself when the whole point was showing you what she’s created. The gallery already gave me a great space to work with, and you get to see some of the artwork exactly where you’ll find it when you go check everything out yourself.
I’ve talked to Cassidy a couple of times since I started buying her artwork, mostly to tell her how much I like what she’s doing. When I decided to write about it here, I asked her first because this is her artwork and her story, and she was incredibly kind about letting me share it.
So now I’m telling you.
Don’t just run through and look at the pictures either. Read the stuff on the walls because that’s where I went from “these are really cool drawings” to wandering around, wondering what the next collection would teach me.
And apparently bring some extra L$, because I went from buying three or four pieces to buying more for myself, and eventually for friends and family too.
At this point I’m basically turning everybody’s houses into unofficial Cassidy June Art galleries.
I’m okay with it.
Some of the frames are still empty. Cassidy isn’t finished yet, and I’ve already gotten to watch a few of them fill.
Hopefully, now a few more of us will be watching to see what she puts in the rest.
A second life for art feels pretty fitting.
🌭Cassidy June Art / Ko-fi
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🍪Cassidy June Art – Gallery of Hand-Drawn Food Pieces
🍕Bullseye @ City of Portofino
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You can always find me over at LuckySpiritor.Com and every other social here; I’ll follow back, I promise!
Credits:
Head: LeLUTKA.Head.NOA.4.0 ~ Jaden Nova
Head Applier: Stray Dog HERVE EVOX TAN (V) NO BROWS ~ Gac Akina
Hair: [MFCNT] THOR Bun – Grooming Hair – LeBarbier Alpha
Hairbase: LeLUTKA.EvoX.Hairbase.044 (BOM) ~ Jaden Nova (Comes with the LeLUTKA NOA Head)
Eyes: [ContraptioN] Depthglass Eye ~ Walton Wainwright
Eyebase: Avi-Glam. Prism Eyes – Pack 2 ~ Eye Daddy
Ears: ^^Swallow^^ Gauged S Ears ~ Luciayes Magic
Ear Tattoo: RichB. Ears Tattoo #08 ~ Salvy Hexem
Beard: [MFCNT] Ducky Skunk Beard & Stache – LeBarbier Alpha
Beard Layer: PHYSIQUE X – Logan Facial Hair (v1) Tintable ~ PhysiqueX Resident ~ NEW @ Manhood (July 27-Aug 21)
Body: [LEGACY] Athletic Edition (1.7.1) ~ MeshBody Resident
Skin: VELOUR: PICASSO HOMME Skin for Legacy (FIT/TAN) Picasso Neck ~ Kiria Mama
Nails: Pare.Cure Mesh Nails Both Hands [Short] – Legacy ~ Flazedo Resident
Torso Tattoo: Boscato Vigor Upper Body Tattoo MEDIUM – Boston Blaisdale
Shirt: [Deadwool] Aftermath shirt ~ Masa Plympton
Pants: [Deadwool] Spade Trousers ~ Masa Plympton
Shoes: [Deadwool] Monkassin ~ Masa Plympton
Rings/Bracelets: *RE* Atreides Bracelet & Rings ~ Crashnoww Resident
Earrings: = DAE = SXD1 ~ Naomi Darkheart
Location: Cassidy June Art – Gallery of Hand-Drawn Food Pieces
