I believe that when we don’t know much about our past and our grandparents we have the same feeling as someone that has lost part of his or her long time memory. Both ask the same questions: who am I? Where have I come from?
My grandfather has tried to answer these questions for my family by documenting the story of his life and pictures of our past generation. He has documented all of those in his notebook. What he has done has provided me with a world full of memories that I can refer to whenever I want to recall these memories.
Second life has given me the ability to recreate this world in virtual format. It has given me the ability to present these memories in a way that will be interesting for visitors. I have presented these memories in a gallery like environment. I have relatives around the world that each of them can find their answers here. They can come here and visit the gallery and learn more about their past generation. The next generation will also have the ability to come here and learn about their aunt sisters.
My avatar is a representation of my grandfather who decided to document all these memories in his notebook and past them to the next generation as an inheritance so we learn from them and apply them to our life.
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I'm sorry we didn't have a chance to talk about your installation last week more. Anyway, I was thrilled to find it in the front yard of my house. Since building a memory architecture of my family home I've been thinking a lot about how SL can operate to bring lost family memories and photos together in a form that our extended family worldwide - our diasporas - can share resources and memories.
You have created a virtual gallery or museum - and this dimension is extremely interesting and important about SL -- and about how artists have been using the online web for a long time.
I love the carpet and the feeling of being surrounded or encased by pictures in this virtual installation. I look forward to your presentation tomorrow. Really nice extension of your journal project into SL. Good work.
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