Artist #7

Gracie Kendal

7th artist is Gracie Kendal, she is a second life artist and uses her work to put herself back together. She's overweight and uses her second life avatar to give herself a second life. Her art is based on spontaneity and change. In this piece its her real self and her second life counterpart posing in similar manners You can really get the since that she is enjoying herself loving her life now. I wonder if she felt the same way before she created Gracie Kendal.

"…I have found it difficult to be comfortable in my own skin. My sense of self has become dislodged and torn apart. Through Gracie I have begun to put myself back together.

By reading this qoute she wrote it's hard to tell. Was she an overweight artist who found comfort and herself within secondlife or is she just an artist looking for a new media to present work within. She threats Gracie as if she is real as if she is herself. Most interesting is one picture she has on her site.

In the real world you can't wish and make something happen but you can in second-life. So I think if you ask the question is Gracie Kendal real. I say no she's not. She is an alter-ego, but definitely not real.