Anything you imagine is possible - Revisiting photographer Ashanti Leshelle

Posted by Bettina Tizzy

Berlin artist Ashanti Leshelle embraces the notion that anything you imagine is possible in the virtual world of Second Life®. Ash creates and assembles scenes three-dimensionally in-world, as well as her own Windlight settings (a bit like adding a special filter to your camera), and then photographs them. Post-production is minimal.


Types


traveler


cuuuarp


The passenger

Stop by her Flickr stream and have a look.

Ashanti LeShelle's surreal imagery continues to delight

She is clever and creative, but she is also flawless in her execution of fanciful images that invite fresh thinking. Ashanti LeShelle's work has already graced these pages here and here, but this is the first time we introduce you to her pig series. You can click on the photographs to see them larger.


"Floating"


Stopover


"Alien"

Where the carp fly

Ever since I discovered her work a few weeks ago, Ashanti LeShelle's Flickr stream of photographs has become a destination for me.


Ashanti's "Carp" - All rights reserved

Ashanti uses the freeware ArcSoft PhotoStudio 5.5 to post-process her work.

You can see her work and that of many other gifted photographers in the following Not Possible IRL Flickr group pools:
* Not Possible IRL Content Creation
* Avatars Not Possible IRL*
* Situations Not Possible IRL

Join us! Add your own masterpieces to these pools, but please do read the group rules and descriptors first.

Ashanti LeShelle's photography articulates her dreams and jump-starts our imagination

Berliner Ashanti LeShelle is polite and reserved in her interactions with others, but her photography tells us so much more.


The FlyBy by Ashanti

Using freeware to post-process her photographs and Second Life as her platform, Ashanti at once loses her self containment and pierces our dazed reality, inviting us to explore her mind and her dreams in ways that surely would have delighted André Breton.


Ashanti dangles from Light Waves' sculpty Ballerina's fingers in "Aversion"

Increasingly, Second Lifers are using the metaverse as a tool for self-discovery and projection of their inner world, with new dimensions of depth. In this regard, Ashanti is leading the pack.