Photography has long been an outlet, with a focus on personal travel and Florida’s natural environments. Most of this work is published in the Flickr account Simulacra and typically cross-posted to a Facebook page and to Mastodon. A sample album is embedded below:
Virtual Environments. I've built three-dimensional, immersive virtual spaces in platforms like Second Life, culminating in a now-archived OpenSim project intended to evoke the idea of "Florida." A video tour is embedded below. You can also view a rough draft video tour of an OpenSim-based virtual FSU campus that I created as a sabbatical project. I find that building in these spaces is an enjoyable blend of coding, modeling, and visual art. I've also made related multimedia Prezis (remember those?) and an award-winning machinima.
Dioramas and Scale Models. When COVID and retirement hit, I leapt back into childhood and started building models, primarily in 1:25 and 1:144 scale: airplanes, rockets, railroads, and automobiles (particularly antique VWs, a longtime interest in 1:1 scale). I find it both nostalgic and rewarding to reignite this hobby with an adult's patience.
Mixed Media. I've also made a few Nature-oriented pieces for my home.
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Gardening (IRL) with native plants continues to intrigue—which, while not primarily done as visual expression, does yield aesthetic, ecophilial, and scopic pleasure. And after all, gardens are rhetorical.