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is there something rather than nothing?
This is the question
that Leibniz poses while wondering about creation.
Entering in the Metaverse, the question remains the same.
Why is there something rather than nothing?
How will the future landscape be? Where will our avatars pose
their feet?
This artwork is a series
of photographs of a new land called The Grid, the net of the
servers that hosts the Second Life world simulating physical
surface geography. This land is the basic structure underneath
all of the Second Life world, the earth where millions of
avatars start to live. Marco Manray, like an Ansel Adams in
Second Life, puts his tripod in the middle of the wilderness
areas of an ideal West, exploring what is still left of the
wild, the untouched segment of the natural-not natural environment
of the Metaverse.
The results are twelve black and white photographs of Second
Life landscape that with their sense of reality again pose
the question: “Why is there something rather than nothing?”
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