First of all, I’d like to thank you for currently visiting my personal website. It actually took me quite a lot of time creating it, and I’ve been wondering why things seemed to go slower than necessary. The easiest way to finish that question is by blaming my limited HTML building skills, and you wouldn’t even be that wrong, but that’s not the entire truth. I could actually build a website in just a few hours. It wouldn’t look that bad and it might even be just as practical as this one. Well, I hear you thinking, why have you been wasting your time then?
Let’s do some out of the box thinking, and I actually intend to do so literally. The balcony this text is in front of, have you noticed it’s from the building in the blue bar above? Did you spot the little man on the dome on the left, probably being held by an invisible climbing rope? Have you been wondering if the light blue square on the right is meant to be a window? And if the latter seems obvious to you, why would there be window in a single blue field that seems to be underwater mostly?
What I’m trying to point out with these questions is the important difference between seeing and perceiving. You most probably see a blue square and perceive a window, even though it lacks every common window characteristic. You want to mention the sunlight coming through and reflecting on the water? Well then, where is the sun, why is the reflection going underwater, why is it even water? Apparently, there is a certain formal coherence here, even though there is no clear method to realise that connection.
This is a very interesting thought, because it shows how unfathomable the process of communication can be. Even though understanding what happens here is rather difficult, the fact it is can actually be used in your advantage. Fernando Hocevar, the artist that created this work of computer art, knew perfectly well which tools to use for triggering our curiosity by seeking the delicate balance between known form language and abstract art. The effect sorted will of course vary per viewer depending on how clear and convincing the message is.
I designed this website with a very specific programme of requirements to make my message as clear and convincing as it could possibly be. Therefore I created these blueish boxes as a binding theme, returning every page with the same sort of content. The menu shows in grey on what page you are, the thumbnails allow you to view the picture you want at the moment you want without being annoying, the pictures are mostly of very good quality and nice to look at, all margins are exactly the same... You can possibly guess I could continue for quite some time pointing out all the little efforts I made to create this website as it is now, altogether I think being crucial for the impression it gives to the viewer about me and my work, maybe even more than the text you might have been reading... have you?
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