Abstract
No Men's Land
Simone [cym] van Groenestijn
No Men's Land - A project by cym
Website address: http://nomensland.eu/
In her project 'No Men's Land' cym creates a transition of a real life situation into an abstract composition that can only be viewed by means of modern technology (a web browser). The original photos show the borders that define the countries in Central Europe and show the transitions of these imaginary lines through recent time.
The real life situations, captured in the different photos, are turned into abstract compositions that are created entirely in HTML, the language used to create websites. The restrictions that occur when creating an image as an HTML table give each image its special, almost poetic atmosphere or rhythm.
The result is not only a transition from a real life situation into a digital composition, there is also the imaginary transition back to the real life situation, when the viewer watches first the abstract image and tries to imagine what the original source photo could be like, before clicking 'view source'.
