Up to 625, functions on a structure accessed through the five key colors. A first image in five colors ramifies into five images, which in turn lead to twenty-five, and so on up to a corpus of 625 images. As the visitor moves through the website she is led to penetrate deeper and deeper into the structure, reaching increasingly precise elements. The overall, abstract vision of the initial images gradually gives way to concrete and particular objects, whose location simultaneously becomes less evident. Indeed, the arborescent pathway lends the deeper-level images a more intimate quality. Seeing them all would require a systematic process of remounting and redescending so as to explore each of the available paths.
In this respect, Matt Mullican has made good use of the hypertext potential of the net. The visitor is encouraged to wander fluidly and rapidly through the structure and the images of the website, as though in an urban grid with all it contains.
Simon Lamunière