My only real artistic interest for most of my life has been music, and I turned into a Posernut more or less by accident. I wasn't planning on ever telling this story to anyone here, but since you asked, here it is.
Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin, at the beginning...

Four years ago I went through a really low period following a break up with the one I had expected to be with forever, and, in connection with this, the death of another close friend in a motorbike accident. (Julie... I put a remembrance pic to her in my gallery). After all this, I became a bit of a recluse outside work, and took refuge in Second Life, where I met loads of dorks but also some incredibly friendly and compassionate people who pulled me through my depression and put me back on track.

Anyway, I spent a lot of time shopping, or going on adventures, or sailing (a RL passion), or just hanging out with my new friends, mostly girls. Yes, I do know that at least half of them were male IRL, but some of them made pretty convincing SL girls anyway - with only an occasional slip - so it really didn't matter!

Our little group had an ongoing challenge to make and upload the funniest (or sexiest) avatar animations, often with accompanying sounds. I started out using Avimator, but soon switched to Poser to try for smoother, more lifelike animations. I still had no idea what Poser was really capable of, or about the 3D community in general.

But one day I was browsing some SL community pictures on Flickr when I stumbled across a Poser render by Rnofsky (Arno), and was completely blown away by it. (I can't remember which one it was, and he's deleted nearly everything from his gallery now). I followed the link to his gallery here at Rendo, had a good look around the site, and was hooked!

Nowadays I use my SL home as little more than an open 3D gallery for my pictures. Some of the pictures I have done, though simplistic, have really helped me to exorcise the ghosts of the story I have touched on here.

But you needn't say it - I'm quite happy in the knowledge of just what a nutcase I am!

"If I were a shadow, I know I wouldn't like to be half of what I should be."
Mr Otsuka, the old black tomcat in Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami)