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And as death approached, the artist’s son did an extraordinary thing: He began to build a place that would live on after his father, made with particles of light. That is to say, Sander Vos logged into Second Life, and made a gallery of his father’s work in digital 3D... “I started building a 3D version of one of his drawings, ‘Villa Insight’ in Second Life, while he was ill, because building makes me calm in a way,” Sander tells me. “I had to think practical all the time, like: How on earth am I going to make this little ink bottle with prims? And I was busy with him at the same time, ‘cause it was all about him of course."

I just checked the gallery's original location, and it seems to be gone. So if that's right, Ms. Coppola's tribute is all that remains of the place: Machinima of a virtual museum featuring digitized recreations of real world illustrations, created by the real life son of the artist who made it all possible.

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