Con Verse Hay Shun [Argument] is an interactive web site featuring drawn and photographic images, text, and navigational devices. The initial on-screen imagery consists of copyright-free illustrations that were created in the mid-Nineteenth Century as detailed engravings of the era’s built and natural environment. Snippets of magnified text from a dictionary are also interspersed. The closely cropped fragments show words, faces, hands and various body parts tiled together in a 1440 x 1440 pixel grid of graphic black and white shapes.

Con Verse Hay Shun [Argument]’s subject matter is the arguments that couples have, divided into the topics of money, love, family, house and power. The illustration and word fragments are roll-over buttons that lead to both images of domestic strife (and optimism!), and large, blocky colored type that reveals the arguments’ topics over the width of the browser window. Another level of interactivity happens when the text buttons are clicked: these open ‘alert’ dialog messages which contain notable quotes—some philosphical, some whimsical—on the disputes that confront couples.

self-initiated project | 2003

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