Art in Second Life can be far more dynamic than in First Life, sometimes built quickly, spontaniously, sometimes in months of wild thought and creative processes. And most certainly destroyable in seconds.  

Aiyas Aya is a 22 year old art student from Toronto, still exploring all that the SL medium offers to express himself- finding out about options, building techniques, scripting secrets- eagerly breathing in his second environment, looking closely at avatar interaction. Highly creative with some really neat immersive and interactive objects, Aya's work has found a home in SL.

Most of Aiyas Aya´s work is exhibited on the artist colony sim Caerleon Isle. 

"Georg Janick, the main founder of the island has purchased the sim as a space where we can work, experiment, and play without worrying about financial restrictions. I have real-world experience designing installation spaces and exhibiting new media art," Aya said. www.chrispostill.com

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Aiyas enjoys playing with text and building interactive objects. Sound is an important medium. To him it stands for a real world experience, more than the visual. He invites a person to be curious, click his objects, and get surprised.

Who wouldn't like to hear what a wind chime the size of a hot bath sounds like? 

"Wind Singers are my attempt to suspend my disbelief that this place is not 'real´" Aiyas said, and adds "to be short, I find that people trust sound much more than visual stimulus, so pairing the metallic bars with the sound I created somehow seemed to make the bars seem more like real bars."?

He explores his digital identity and connection, yet immediately finds ways to create steps of his own digital development into interactve experiences for others. The Avatar Sculpture offers sit balls for seven avatars to pose in different positions in free space. It was fun to try it out for the two of us, and I imagine seing seven very different avatars hanging in the air would show a very funny picture.

"Essentially I just wanted to make the avatar a part of the piece. In the real world I have a strong focus on making the viewer a part of the piece, but posing their body in space isn´t something you can do,"? Aiyas explained.