When Dutch artist Peter Vos lay dying of pancreatic cancer last year, his son Sander channeled his grief into building a memorial to his father in Second Life. He kept building after his father died, creating a remarkable many-level structure of stark white and black walls in which the visitor sometimes blends into the canvas of Peter Vos' life.
This picture shows one of the works at the exhibit, "The Prince and the three strange lads". You'll find more pictures in the slide show accompanying this article and several more on my Avatar Planet blog.
You enter the exhibit in a pitch-black room, with quotes about Peter Vos on one wall and at the far end, you see bright white. Turn the corner, and you're in the next room. The exhibit is almost a maze at times. The way into the next room isn't always evident. There are teleporters on each floor for going to other floors, but they aren't always evident. I recommend taking a notecard card about the exhibit that you'll find in the "About the Exhibit" sign on the first floor you visit. It contains teleport links for all the other floors and for the villa at ground level.
Sander tried explaining to his dying father what he was creating in Second Life, but he experienced what so many of us have, a parent who doesn't understand what virtual worlds and can't imagine their potential. His father would be proud if he could see it. This is a huge exhibit, the entire life work of a prolific artist. The pictures accompanying this article are just a tiny fraction of what you'll see. Second Life members can teleport to the exhibit by clicking slurl.com/secondlife/Turing%20Breezes/161/213/501.
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