🌥️ Cloud Galleries Artist Spotlight is a series that celebrates the creative voices shaping our boutique gallery spaces in Second Life. Each artist brings their own rhythm, vision, and spark to the grid.
This week, we step into the layered, poetic world of Clyte—a maker, a writer, and a storyteller who threads imagination into everything she creates.
🖌️ Meet Clyte
Clyte’s creative life blends the tactile world of fabric and thread with the fluid grace of poetry. In the physical world, she sews constantly—designing and repairing garments, jewelry, and furnishings. Yet her imagination stretches beyond the practical.
“My imagination conjures up designs, many inspired by nature and fantasy, merging colours and textures into art… Bringing them into a virtual world gives me new spaces, new audiences.”
Second Life gives her something the physical world can’t: space. Room to explore, to share, to pair visual textures with poetic ones. Her gallery becomes not just a showcase, but a living book—where poems bloom beside digital versions of real-world works.
🎨 Between Art and Poetry
In her current exhibit A Pisces – fluctuating between poet or artist, one meaningful piece stands at the heart of it all. Titled “Threads,” the poem overlays a real-life embroidery piece called Air, part of a mobile display inspired by the four elements.
Together, they reflect the timeless power women carry—transformative, intuitive, and woven into the act of creation.
“Not so much a glimpse into my process, more the essence of what inspires both my poetry and my art.”
Her poetry arrives in moments of emotional clarity—raw, immediate. Her textile work, by contrast, begins in playful exploration and evolves into something meditative. It’s this dual rhythm that defines her creative life.
🧵 Materials & Method
Clyte’s physical art begins with fabric, threads, and texture. From hand embroidery to mobile installations, her process is one of layering, revising, and reflecting. Each thread carries meaning; each composition balances control with discovery.
Bringing her creations into Second Life opens unexpected doors. Virtual tools allow her to reimagine the familiar in new dimensions—shifting scale, exploring transparency, integrating poetry and visual layers in ways the physical world doesn’t allow.
“Technology can focus, enhance pieces, surprise me!”
She brings her RL pieces into SL not as replicas, but as translations—new works that live differently in a virtual world.
🏠 In Her Cloud Gallery Space
Clyte’s Sky Gallery radiates softness, strength, and subtle complexity. Each corner reveals an aspect of her creative identity—whether stitched, written, or dreamed. Her pairings of embroidered imagery and poetic language invite visitors to slow down and feel the deeper rhythms at play.
“Culture! Trip me over with your words, let music sheen my skin, excite me with your art…”
– from her SL profile
This is not a space for spectacle, but for intimacy—for reflection, for texture, and for poetry stitched with purpose.
🌐 Explore More
- 📍 Visit Clyte’s gallery at Cloud Galleries
- 🎤 Catch her poetry readings at Hotel Chelsea in SL
- 📘 Follow her on Facebook
🦉 Owl’s Thoughts
Clyte’s work is deeply personal—but never closed. It opens space for others to feel, to reflect, and to be moved. Whether she’s threading a needle or shaping a stanza, she offers quiet power with each creation.
There’s something grounding in her gallery. Something that lingers. You leave carrying not just what you saw, but what you felt.
Come. Read her words. See her threads. Let the texture of her world brush gently against your own.
~ Owl 🦉
Owl's Eye 