LHOOQ at Naked Bondage (maybe nsfw)

I thought that title might get your attention. A few days ago, my friend and fellow photographer Jessica Belmer relocated her in-world gallery, LHOOQ, to one of the four Naked sims — Naked Bondage to be precise. (If the abbreviation LHOOQ carries no meaning for you, it's a reference to a 1919 artwork by Marcel Duchamp, who, having purchased an inexpensive postcard featuring the Mona Lisa, gave the lady a penciled mustache and, on the bottom of the card, wrote the letters L.H.O.O.Q — which in French, spoken letter by letter, sound something like "elle a chaud au cul," a vulgar expression that might politely translate as "she has a hot ass.") I've written about Jessica's work a few times on this blog — just go see it. (You don't need to be naked to visit LHOOQ.) But for the art-goer or the more curious visitor there are additional things to see and do on the four sims.

Catty-corner on the map from Naked Bondage is the sim Naked, and there, Cat (CatRedivivus), the manager of the sims, curates The Naked Gallery, showing an assortment of works by a variety of artists, with large sections devoted to works by Jessica, Winter Nightfire (who also has a gallery of her own overhead here) and Amona Savira (image immediately above). Not all of the artworks are erotic (I was surprised to see one of my own works there), but that's often the theme. And although it's OK to be clothed in The Naked Gallery, you really ought to drop the garments to the ground for visits elsewhere in the sims. (For those who are particularly modest, a bikini bottom might help.) And, cycling back to our original location at Naked Bondage, there's a large build in the sky (teleport here), not visible from the islands below, that's a social area for dominance and submission inspired by the writings of Anais Nin (detail in lowest image).