Since the last update texturing has begun in earnest, starting with the Welcome Area. It seemed as good a place as any to start, as there are a number of decisions to be made here about the logic and use of materials that will carry through to the rest of the structures on the island.

As noted in some of the initial concept sketches, the idea has been to use materials traditionally associated with wineries and winemaking in new and deliberately different ways, with the intent of evoking a sense of craft as making fakery something honest and perhaps more authentic to our virtual circumstance. Hence the composition of stone, wood, shingles, cast iron, and glass that you see before you. Stay tuned for more preview images and thoughts on texturing in the next couple of days.