I found this work interesting because of the shear amount of work that went into the creation of something seemingly flawed. Upon viewing the code input for this piece, you see that there is great intention behind the characters that the creator used. Random symbols from the keyboard are amassed into the formation of what appears to be an ASCII atomic bomb. When viewing the output, or what is displayed in the page, you see a blinking jumble of the complex code. The translation is lost, and the bomb is not expressed in the visual output. This failure to express visual imagery through coding is analogous to the intentions of many artists. The artist inputs a loaded amount of emotion, creativity and resources into the creation of a piece of work, and often they are unable to communicate their message due to limitations in the medium. This piece, a jumble of flashing code, represents the inherent limitation of external expression for internal input.
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