Web Project Artist Statement

Audra Rissmeyer
Dec 6
2 min read

Updated: Dec 6

https://auri9665.wixsite.com/audrasarttimez/webventure-awaits

For my webventure I decided to have the audience traverse the path of a maze. I have always been fascinated by mazes. During lectures, I draw mazes on my notes. I started by designing a maze that would still be moderately interesting without having so many paths that it wouldn't be possible for me to have all of them get traversed. I started by building one main web page with the map and three buttons for the turns. Then I duplicated it and labeled all the new pages according to a numbering scheme I came up with to keep track of things. I changed the maps on each page so that they matched up with the link structure.

I then created a character that would traverse the maze. I decided to have it be a butterfly, which I named Steven. The butterfly was a premade gif from wix that I found during the hidden links lab. Then I decided to add some monsters. I though that that would be another a good opportunity to add in a gif. It also added another element to the story. I decided to make the monsters as scary as possible, as a contrast to the friendly butterflies. I went with a blue and grey color scheme as an attempt to tie the whole project together.

I'm pretty happy with how the project went. I would have liked to add a bunch of different monsters to the maze, but that ended up being time prohibitive. I was also having some issues with the gifs that only played once. When they only play once, sometimes the latency in the page loading causes issues.

Gifs:

Butterfly