Ever since my first year at CU as a studio art major, I have always wanted to build a large installation piece. My vision was to create hundreds of birds out of clothespins (a technique I had perfected in high school) and to hang them in a wave formation along a hallway. Alas, in the physical, non-digital world, I neither have the time nor the materials to take on such an endeavor. Perhaps if I received a grant and a solid semester to work on this project, it could be done, but the likelihood of that actually happening is very small. Through the tools that Second Life provides, I may be able to create something on a much larger scale in less time.
In my original idea, I had the birds remain stationary, merely suspended from fishing wire along the ceiling of a hallway. If I were to seriously use Second Life’s construction tools, I would construct bird forms out of a series of polygonal objects (using the “link” tool to group them into singular forms comprised of different polygons). I would then make hundreds of copies of my bird models and I would then use the “move” tool to position them in the world in a wave formation in the air. To add an extra degree of beauty and appeal, before I would copy the bird models, I would use programming to animate them to hover up and down slowly. The final effect would be a flock of birds hovering in formation in mid air. Taking into consideration the means by which this piece would be created, my intended theme would be that of “flying beyond conceived boundaries;” When one is faced with an impossibility in their current situation, one must look beyond what they already know and explore the possibilities of another foreign medium.
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