NPIRL delights

Sadly, one of SL's great art installations is closing today - Garden of NPIRL delights. The exhibition covered an entire Sim and consists of a myriad of creations by various artists in Second Life and was a fine example of the creativity possible there.
As you would fly or walk around the various builds it would constantly amaze - the beauty, the scale, the conceptions...beautiful fantasy trees and plants, enormous working machines, dragon like creatures littering the sky, surreal constructions, and so much more, too many exhibits to list or post photos for. Every time I would visit I would discover some new creation I hadn't found before, right up until today when I went back for one last look. Considering the basic shapes that one has to work with in Second Life, residents really do use their imaginations to the limit.

Wishing to keep some memories of this and to share with you the wonderful experience that was Garden of NPIRL delights I've posted some pictures below. It is just a tiny fraction of what was there, but my personal favourites.

Of course, this last installation captured my attention immediately - an excellent representation of Salvador Dali's Christ of St John of the Cross:

Let's hope there will be more such wonderful installations.

Creators - images from top left:

1. Strawberry Holiday - The most beautiful, colourful fantasy trees
2. Gene Replacement/Andrew Lovell - A magical grove, glowing with colour
3.Keph777Enoch - Enormous machine construction, with moving workings
4.Nectere Niven - Wonderful sculpture with pulsating heart ,light and moving lava
5. Aloha Oh - Another enormous construction - a water bottling machine, but oh so much more!
6. Gary Kohime - 3d construction of Dali's Christ of St John of the Cross