Skates on with Tina

Tina Bey's art has garnered her a huge following of admirers and collectors. Her sixteen year long inworld career as a digital creator in open sim is founded on her studies at the National School of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires; her imagination and passion for science fiction, environmental causes, and a love of play - bringing humor and a lighthearted sense of youth into our often world weary realms -  inform and give flight to those very creditable foundations.

This new build, which has been an ongoing project for several months, finally got its big opening with a HG safari visit, our first destination of the fourteenth Safari trip of 2026. The location of the event - Star Ravenhurst's grid TenthDimension. The region, Imagination Island (full HG Address at the end of the post) is an annex to the main gallery, Le Beau Retrouve, which opened in the summer of 2024. 

We were all invited to wear skateboards to take the tour as they are fast and fun. Most of us got ours on before we left the clubhouse, but they were also available on the region so if you jump over to view the sim, look  for the green and black rezzing area and take the board from one of the boxes.

Star Ravenhurst: Welcome Everyone!

James Atlloud: Loving the colors here!

Forest Azure: oh, snow! cold feet!

Tina Bey[es→en]: please read the posters hehehe....  all is free, as a gift

Thirza Ember: ahahah of course Lumi is the best on the skateboard

Luminalore Resident: Hahah you know me too well now. XD

Tina Bey[es→en]: let's start!!! follow me

James Atlloud: Tina has a one-wheel board!! <jealous>

Tina Bey:  Thirza's usual question, always spot on: What motivated you to create the Region this way? (Typical Thirza question!!! lol)  Mainly COLOR. I wanted to learn in this situation to interpret the vibration of color, or rather the reaction of opposites. Everything that the NeoPop style represents, and I hadn't explored it enough, and this was a good opportunity. Luckily, the concept always flows.

Tina Bey: The THEME: a snapshot of contemporary society. Joy, nostalgia, play, rest, balance, and peace. The characters are now part of my family, moving through different actions, bringing to life possible, imagined, remembered, and invented scenarios but all of them speak of something, whether painted or not. They speak and say many things for me… each one will resonate with a different viewer, not necessarily in the same way. A piece of music, a face, will trigger a memory or a dream, a good or bad experience…

Tina Bey:  This time, color was the protagonist. The rest is play and situations that usually lead to humor and tenderness. Star Ravenhurst offered me the opportunity to experiment in this region that so generously welcomes artists. So… I set out in mid-2025, and everything unfolded with great calm and enjoyment.

Tina Bey:  Simultaneously, LUDUS was created at Pangea at the invitation of Lampithaler Artist and Marlon Wayne; at Craft World, Rosanna Galvani invited me to create freely in the Garage area, from which a multitude of playful creations emerged, all sharing the same premises, ample space, and a desire to create. That is enough to make me happy... aqui un breve video  muy rapido

The short video is really short - under 20 seconds! but there are chairs available to sit and watch it multiple times. We however rushed on immediately to the next part.

Tina Bey[es→en]: here is my bar

Thirza.Ember: good place to stop at the bar!

James.Atlloud: my drink is a Cosmo please

Shelenn Ayres: was lost haha

Rosanna Galvani: fantastico!!

Shelenn Ayres: where is tina? a beautiful exhibits as always thank you for the invite

We finally stopped for a moment - on water! 

James Atlloud: my childhood bath tub!

Thirza Ember: there must be 100 figures here, maybe more... wow

James Atlloud: easily more than 100 - fun mesh!!

Thirza Ember: this is my first water-borne skateboard

Star Ravenhurst: Yes usually they sink

James Atlloud: it works well Thirza!

Luminalore Resident: I almost forgot too. I was watching a friend's livestream and they mentioned HG Safari was on today

Tina Bey[es→en]: can we continue?

Thirza Ember: yes please

Rosanna Galvani: io sto facendo un po' di foto

Tina Bey[es→en]: this is the town square

Jupiter Rowland: Okay, you can't jump if you keep hitting the wrong key.

Tina Bey[es→en]: I love that we collide

Dings Digital: I like this chaotic terrain, feels good

Luminalore Resident: It's very colourful. :D

Kimm Starr: I kind of liked the whole skateboard experience

Star Ravenhurst: Skateboards are fun

Kimm Starr: Love love love this world exhibit Tina!!!!!!!!!!

Tina Bey[es→en]: get together here again, follow me so you don't get lost

Thirza Ember: Star, can you please tell us something about this exhibit?

Star Ravenhurst: I gave Tina full freedom to create whatever she wants. And this is it!  I knew it would be fun and colorful. I think the idea of the skateboards is to add some fun and a quick way to get around the region to see as much as possible

Thirza Ember: in your gallery how long do you give an artist to work? do they have a time limit?

Star Ravenhurst: In Tina's case, she has had longer than usual. With problems with the grid and my avatar, it took a long time to fix those things. So Tina had a lot of time to come up with ideas and do the work.

Tina Bey[es→en]: here you can breathe a little

Thirza Ember: the quality and originality of the mesh is wonderful

Original Character: yeah the description says the regions id "by various artists" ...do they each get a piece or is it more like a time?

Star Ravenhurst: So far there have been two artists that have exhibited here. I usually give the whole region, a 2x2 t the artist. In the future, I am thinking since it is such a large space, asking a few artists to come in and do something.  Maybe even a collaboration between all of them. That could be fun.

Thirza Ember: i would love to see some of the Mobius artists come and do something here... a sort of pan grid thing

Star Ravenhurst: I haven't have a lot of time to devote to the gallery, but I should have more time and energy to spend on it now

Original Character: Yeah that might be cool, or have like a gallery where each artist has a parcel

Tina Bey[es→en]: I like this place a lot

Rosanna Galvani[it→en]: Everything is beautiful Tina. Thank you Thirza for this tour

Thirza Ember: that's a lot of space to fill!... no lag here, at least for me

Cooper Swizzle: shouts: Awesome exhibit Tina

Kimm Starr: It is amazing and soooo you!, It screams your name! So much fun riding around on a skateboard too!

Yara Eilde: Thanks, Tina, for showing us. Your figures are so imaginative. And thanks for sharing them with us.

Tina Bey[es→en]: let's get into the disco

Tina Bey[es→en]: I warned that it would be a different safari

Star Ravenhurst: It certainly is different!

James Atlloud: Luv it

Shelenn Ayres: tina is one of my favorite artists :) ... good to see everyone too

 Rosanna Galvani: Bravissima

Tina Bey[es→en]: I'm happy to see you all here

Tina Bey[es→en]: At the entrance there is a sign explaining.  It has all the works so that they can take them as a souvenir

Rosanna Galvani[it→en]: it's nice to see these works all together

Thirza Ember: i love the textures she does, so original

James Atlloud: Tina, you make mesh look easy, but I'm sure it is not!

Shelenn Ayres: an interesting interpretation of color vibrations and fun chaos

Lavia Lavine: I think it's amazing, it gives me a kind of Alice in Wonderland feel.  I love it. Fantastic job Tina!

Tina.Bey[es→en]: yes, the color, which makes us creators suffer so much

Thirza Ember: anyone want to say in 5 words what Tina's art reminds them of?

Forest Azure: what .. how.. why .. oh, that's just 3

Lavia Lavine: Alice in Wonderland.

Star Ravenhurst: Lavia, so true

Shelenn Ayres joined us on the Safari and took the opportunity to speak about the upcoming Opensim event, OSFest. The date has not been set yet, as the organizers want people to have a say in determining both the date and the theme of the 2026 edition. 

Shelenn Ayres: btw we only have 11 votes so far on the dates or OSFest! if you haven't voted please do that in osfest server or send me a dm and i will proxy your vote... I very much hope everyone here participates whether on osfest grid or home grids!

Original Character: I'm in the OSfest discord so I'll take a look at what's going on, has the theme been decided already?

Shelenn Ayres: see polling channel... vote on dates then we vote on themes

Original Character: I really wanna  try getting a parcel there some time but I better haul to make my models and stuff to put there

Shelenn Ayres: the way osfest works since last year is people can choose to exhibit on osfest or at home grids by scheduling calendar time... first come first serve ! i need to upgrade the grid before we open to build for those wanting a parcel

Luminalore Resident: Can i get a link to the OSFest Discord?  

Shelenn Ayres: https://discord.gg/vJNEDd375Z

Tina Bey[es→en]: Thanks for coming,  It was fantastic, messy the way I like it hehehe

Tina Bey[es→en]: Thank you for this opportunity

Koshari Mahana: I love all of your work Tina, thanks for having us.

Yara Eilde: Yeah, everything's so cheerful

Shelenn Ayres: tina is everybody's bey hehhe

Lavia Lavine: This work is a "cheerer upper"!

Luminalore Resident: Time to teleport. :D

 Star Ravenhurst: Thank you Tina for this wonderful exhibit. You have out done yourself! Bravo!

James Atlloud: Thank you Tina - this was fun!! I very much enjoyed it.

Jupiter Rowland: Well, then see you on the other side!

HG Address: grid.tenthdimension.org:26002:Imagination Island

Too Right

We all know that two wrongs don't make a right, but did you know that many rights make a wrong - when the 'rights' are well crafted art installations, and the 'wrong' is , well, The Wrong Biennial... but let's get Kimm Starr to explain what's going on, she's one of the curators of a fabulous art exhibition on Kitely.

Kimm Starr: The Wrong Biennale is a bi-annual show seen by millions of people worldwide. This edition of The Wrong is about AI and the artists' use of it in their work. Seems like an obvious choice for them to make, since AI is coming at us 90 miles an hour. We saw it as an opportunity to show the world that what we create in OpenSim is not only art, but an art medium in its own right. We made a pavilion called "Synthetic Dreams" which consists of two parts. One half is a dedicated website and the other half is an in-world gallery. The show opened on November 1st, 2025.

Thirza Ember: Tell us how you came to choose to do the show on Kitely.

Signs and Visions on Osgrid

 Constelacion de Orion 2 on Osgrid is one of the regions that Geo Perez calls home. Geo's been around opensim for many years now, and these regions, inspired by his writings and built by Tina Bey, will be the subject of one of the upcoming talks at the Hypergrid INternational Expo on HG Safari grid, in the first weekend of April.

Here he is in the avatar that is itself part of the story of his books, and these regions - veery white, with flowing locks and a strange electricity flowing around his body.

Geo Perez:  Welcome to Constelacion Orion geo portal. 

Geo Perez: This is my sim Alinijena 2... Next month I'm going to make a grid of my own, so all my lands will be moving. This is the entrance if you see behind you there are the dimensional portals

Geo Perez: Here are my promotional books...  I have like 17 but 33 if you count the translations in English and Spanish. My story is captured here, this place designed by Tina Bey, everything passed on my book and she created it all.

The Stars of Exupery

 There is a kind of law of the shortest distance to the image, 

a psychological law by which the event  to which one is subjected 

is visualized in a  symbol that represents its swiftest summing up.

                                        Wind Sand and Stars, A. de Saint-Exupéry

He fell out of the sky in 1935. 

Antoine de Saint Exupéry was born into a noble but impoverished family of Lyon, France in 1900. He became a pilot in the years between the world wars, transporting people, mail, and goods around North Africa and the Med, frequently flying over the Sahara. That desert, and its peoples, were so far from the modern hazards of life in Europe in the 1930's, that they captured his imagination and, along with his other adventures in far flung places, gave life to a series of books, rich with limpid prose, exquisite descriptions, and timeless reflections on life and love. 

It was in the Egyptian part of the Sahara that De Exupéry crashed, during a race from Paris to Saigon, in 1935. Of his many plane crashes, this one - and the 4 days that it took him and his copilot to be found - were the most influential on the rest of his life. Hope and fear, mechanics, mirages, and hallucinations, coffee and oranges, and a passing Bedouin got him out of the situation, and no doubt led to Saint Exupèry's career as a writer. 

The best loved and most widely distributed of his works is The Little Prince. It's one of those books that everyone should have read, and once read, you will probably decide to read it again. It's a short read, most people can get through the whole book in about an hour.

The planets

Tina on Pangea

Tina Bey's life has been one of art for just about forever. The person behind the avatar is an award-winning artist with a wealth of academic knowledge of Fine Arts, and a long experience of working with galleries, patrons, students, teachers, and lovers of art in general. She got her first region on OSGrid eleven years ago.

Tina Bey: My first region was called "Araucana" (Antarctica in English) thanks to someone generous who lent me his server. I wanted to create futuristic constructions floating on the seas. Later I had, for many years, the "Araucana" region also in Osgrid. It had a purely science fiction theme, which I continued with for several years... until I started seeing and attending exhibitions, galleries and museums dedicated to art in the metaverse. It was almost a replica of my real world, in which I had navigated quite successfully, with a good resume, awards, scholarships, commitments with galleries and contracts to fulfill... too many things. When one has already gone through all that, the 3D virtual world opens up as a great breath of freedom, where a canvas can be walked and walked on literally without restrictions.

MdM - Rededicated!

 The ribbon was cut today at the rededication ceremony of an old friend, the Museo del Metaverso on Craft Grid, now sporting a brand new look!

In a dark sky, just above the black waters of the sim, the new structure floats like a glass cage, full of movement and color, history and innovation.

Planet A with Tina Bey

 Tina Bey is one of those outstanding artists who make opensim a joy.

In OSGrid since 2010, Tina's an enthusiastic supporter if opensimulator's Test grid, and this year once again she is contributing to the  Auction event at the end of September (here's a blog post about the auction).

Tina's sometimes perceived as being a little shy, not the loudest voice in the room for sure, but she has always impressed with her willingness to explore opensim, encourage others, learn what is going on out there on the HG, and make stunning original creations. If you're a safari oldbie you may remember our visits to Arcauana back in 2016, and Waterworld in 2015. Tina's from Argentina, so her first language is Spanish, but of course, the language of her art transcends all that.

Tina's art is deeply rooted in real world cultures and issues

Auction objects are sold for real money and won't be free to copy - but that's a huge exception from Tina's usual practice.

Tina Bey: Usually my sculptures are completely free, since the spirit of opensim has been free since its beginnings. That is why I benefited from working here and moving from Second Life to work better and more freely in all aspects, including economics. This "Antarctica" region generously lends me Mazzo Ganitano, a Spanish gentleman I don't even know personally but who gives many of us the possibility of having a region free of charge. I am very grateful for so many people who have given me their regions since I started, and that is why I generally put my created objects free, like in different shopping centers, among others LANI Mall. free copy.

The Gift

– Adieu, dit le renard. Voici mon secret. Il est très simple :

on ne voit bien qu’avec le cœur.

A secret, a heart, a book, a voice, a concept, a collaboration, and a sim. A gift.

It began with Unadecal Masala. He runs a region hosting service, where you can rent a fast, efficient region connected to OSGrid, and I think other grids too, but you should ask him. He has always been a supporter of the Safari and Opensim Arts in general, and he offered a space for a project by and for the Safari. 
The idea of doing an event  this season to mark the 122nd birthday of Antoine de Saint-Exupery was already on my mind. His most famous text is The Little Prince, written in French but translated into over 250 languages and dialects, making it one of the most international and best loved books in the world.

But who to take on the job of imagining the book for opensim? It could only be one person, Wizardoz Chrome, machinimer, conceptual artist, word lover and a brilliant and delightful collaborator, not to mention one of the founding members of the Safari. She soon involved others, including Tina Bey, Art Blue, Venus Adored, and Cherry Manga, who presented each of us with a white animesh rose, freshly invented by her, on our arrival on sim Exupery. A truly international group to celebrate these sublime words that have resonated in hearts all around the planet.

Smokin' Safari

        It's that time of year when we are all subjected to a sort of mass hallucination that the whole world is knee deep in presents and snow, family and mistletoe. 
         That makes it refreshing, not to mention healthy, to take a minute to realize that not all cultures, lifestyles, or climates, are the same. 
         Safari began as usual on Teravus Plaza.