Artist #4

Bryn Oh
Mayfly

     Bryn Oh is a second life artist, he sketches out his work and then goes onto second life to recreate what he had already drawn to make beautiful works of art. The art piece I'm going to discuss this time around is going to be The Mayfly. The Mayfly is probably the 3rd piece I saw from him is the best one that I actually connected with. The Mayfly's life is quite poetic if you think about it hard enough. They live as larvae in the mud for about one year to grow as an adult to have the life span of only 30 minutes to 1 day. They are often reborn without mouths as they are just not needed since they have such a short lifespan. It's almost tragic to give them the ability to fly for such a short time.
     Watching the video your presented a swamp you get to witness mayfly's being reborn to fly only to live a short time to die. You are also given a very beautiful word by word play of what is actually going on in poetic fashion of course. At the end of the video the last mayfly dies just as night demands. Crazy to see this all done on second life. What I also found intriguing about the video was that night is not present throughout the whole video but as it gets later in later in the day night gets closer as if death is near to take them away.