Exhibiting in the Second Life® virtual world

Here’s to unexpected creative adventures! Through the fabulous Amanda Tomasoa (Instagram: amandatomasoa_artist) and her work in Second Life®, I found myself exhibiting “inworld” this year – inside a virtual gallery space. My name even appeared in Amanda’s feature in Spectre Magazine, which still feels slightly surreal.

For someone who has always lived firmly in the real-world art ecosystem (exhibitions, walls, frames, galleries you can physically walk into) wrapping my head around a virtual exhibition was a challenge to this traditional mindset. It asked me to rethink what an art space can be, how people gather around creativity, and how far our work can travel when the usual boundaries fall away.

I’m sharing a few pages from the magazine here because I love the idea of showing what “exhibiting” can look like when you step outside the usual mould.

Art doesn’t have to follow one path. It can find its audience in the most surprising places, even in worlds built from imagination and pixels.

Here’s to trying new things, stretching creative comfort zones, and saying yes to experiences that broaden our perspective!

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