A Story of Dual Hope

This week a friend from Second Life asked me for a donation to a charity auction for Arts for Autism.  I love doing stuff like this and I really wanted to help this worthy cause with something unique, custom, but it was a busy week and wasn’t sure if I could fit it all in, as I already had a lot of commitments inworld, in addition to a large commissioned request. Anyway, I was high up on my supersecret (lol) platform and listening to my music streaming in, getting into the groove and feeling creative. I originally wanted to make a puzzle piece pendant, as the organization uses a puzzle piece as a logo, and I thought it would look cool… but prims and time being limited I couldn’t quite come up with something I liked.. so I went into a different direction… and this is whatI came up with…

So this is my contribution to the Arts for Autism auction being held Saturday at noon at Jazzwerks, its a piece I’m proud of and it’s special. I really put myself into it.

Shortly after I finished Jordan*s Hope, I was contacted by a woman who requested I do a custom piece for her.  “Sure,” I said… “what would you like, and when would you like it?”

“I’d like a female symbol being torn apart,” she says.  And a quick turnaround is requested.

gulp.

“How quick?”

“Ten minutes”

My eyes pop out of my head and start to freak out a little.  Then I remember my classes at Career Institute of Fashion and Design.  My teachers were tough taskmasters! I could do this!  its just like another assignment!

I look around my very messy work area, looking for the little prims I would need to create such a piece.  Still having the stream on, I get lost in the music and put the old brain into gear, troubleshooting creatively… trying to get things small enough and proportionate…

Clock keeps ticking.

I think about why would this woman  ask for such a piece? It’s a very personal request, it seems. I ponder this as I push prims together, cut, rotate, texture, check my reference pictures… she seemed sad. It seemed like a sad request. My heart went out for her and I felt like I was the right woman for this job. There couldn’t be another one who could relate to her like I could, and manifest it physically. Lots of stuff happening in my slife and rlife.

Twenty minutes later…

“Torn female” - custom exclusive work by Jordan Morgenrote.

I teleport the customer to my platform, after showing her pictures of the progress, and ask her to put it on.

She tps in, her avatar even has a broken demeanor.

We talk a little, and as she puts the necklace on, I realize a really coincidental parallel.

The customer’s name?

Hope.

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