Well, I can blame
Torley and his watermelon-y enthusiasm for this one. After watching his
video on buying a parcel as a Premium member, I was like, "
Screw it...I've spent money on worse stuff. Why not have land that I truly own?" and went hunting for a little 512. It had been a long time since I explored the mainland. I forgot about the tight plots and weird ad placements...
And it concerned me to see lots divided into such small parcels. Why is that allowed? It's like inviting trouble...
At first, this one seemed okay, ad block thingies aside. I hated the concept of being totally boxed in though...
But then, I came upon a parcel on a hill, with tolerable builds surrounding me--even a steampunk from Babbage with a beautiful build nearby! I saw a neighbor busy at work and he intro'd himself as Rod, saying he was building an art museum...
He showed me how beautiful the sunsets were there and I knew this was the one! I have named it "Vista del Sol" and plan to have it as a little meditation and sculpture art garden where I will cycle out pieces by myself and friends. I created the wall to complement the museum's gardens on the land below and will change the art on it regularly. Right now it is showing my sketch "Inazami". I am truly thrilled with my decision...
I had called myself being "neighborly" by creating something on that ugly sheer cliff face that I thought would fit the aesthetics of my place, as well as his. It seems my neighbor had some folks by to see his place and deemed my wall and sketch below as not fitting in with his "vision" of the museum as he felt it "read" as being part of it...
Now, I am not a difficult neighbor. I have never complained or lost my mind on one before. I am also not unreasonable enough to recognize that okay, I can understand his POV. This isn't a privately-owned sim, so technically I can put whatever the hell I want on my lot, but I was being nice. I support and am a patron of the SL arts in addition to being an artist myself, but...I felt, how does this bode for my original purpose of the land--one that I told this neighbor my intentions for? If I put my own sculpture and art or those of friends there--as originally planned--will I come back to ugly huge high walls everywhere next because it conflicts with his "vision"? Hmph. I had one too. Still do. Maybe I should've put gaudy rotating cubes, pink ponies and floppy dongs there instead?
