7. Who's Art
(Showed actual 3D animated world during talk, here is a screen shot:)

So a person, Purple Tears, creates narrative artwork with a community of people (her friends) that becomes the very parks, streets, community squares that they meet in. From the dynamics of their relationships, both at the personal and community level other artwork is created (with sometimes very strong and personal narratives) which again make the landscape, the environment of their community. They are both: expressing themselves and living inside their art work.

The Nativity space was created by Purple Tears and others. Here all have created their avatars as characters from the nativity scene and met on Christmas Eve, but then the people/avatars become permanant sculptures -- a nativity set that they can revisit year after year. In this way not only does the artwork becomes part of there environment but so do the people, solidified in time - at a past chrismas event.

( NativitySpace: http://209.219.15.163/Onlive/thenativity.olv - need traveler client to view).

Imagine living in a real neiborhood that has a close nit community but the streets, parks, village squares are narrative expressions of feelings, past events and homages to friends. And that you spend your time in these narrative settings, living out a particaular part of your identity that again can regenerate into the very brick and mortor of the community.

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