AVENUE Magazine January 2012

than the scenes above where the colors are more golden brown.

Jewell explains, “All the parts I did in different stages of learning, and [they] have some insect and nature theme, but I like to create things that don’t exist in our real life. It is for me almost like creating dreamlike places in an awake state, so I don’t exclude also a little more frightening and mythological scenes in my builds.”

“Gaja Clary was letting me rez the parts in the sky of mesh mellows, and I wasn’t aware at that moment it would be featured in the showcase later.” As you fly through the build you are able to view the insect themes, and even humanoid forms with wings that one would see on a housefly, along with the antennae that one would find on a honeybee or moth. It is reminiscent of Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, where the protagonist of the novel is transformed into a giant cockroach. When I asked how the insect theme came about, along with the forest sequence inside the giant fly in the build, Jewell summed it up this way: That’s different from person to person. What I do is visualoriented, and I hope people get transported in a dream, not based on reality, more surreal, timeless; where we feel small and tiny even like the fly. Like much in life we rarely see the bigger