mouchette.com

This site strikes me as very peculiar and kind of disturbing. The girl seems to be a constructed identity and the site in general seems to be creepily ambiguous. The site also seems to go out of its way to touch on controversial and disturbing subject matter. Something else left ambiguous is the purpose or motivation behind the site. The space for the viewer's interaction with the site through sending e-mails or posting comments seems to be a sort of request for the viewers of the site to try and answer those ambiguities themselves through contemplation as she draws them in.

The biggest question to me is why would a person want to engage with this site? What about it draws people in? The graphics and overall design are very dated and the construction of the site is confusing and difficult in terms of navigation. This again makes me ask what is the creator of this site hoping to achieve? It does not explicitly express much about who Mouchette is, and it does also not cater to the viewer with a user friendly design. Who is the site for? And what is the audience supposed to do or think? What should we be taking away from our time at this site? Perhaps the true content of this site has little to do with Mouchette herself but is in fact these very questions. The various graphics, statements, pages, etc. are merely the medium with which the artist has worked to convey their message.