Opacity

"Serge Bouchardon’s 'Opacity' creates a dream-space in which the reader must illuminate, reveal or unpack hidden layers to advance from scene to scene. This four-part interactive narrative explores our dogged, collective drive to discover 'naked truth' and considers implications for personal relationships. Navigating 'Opacity' requires a complicit desire for understanding, insight, or revelation--a shared desire for 'transparency.' Thus, the interface gropes forward from a desire to reveal hidden selves, as the inner workings of a machine may be revealed. A desire that equates ‘light’ with ‘enlightenment’ and vision with understanding then strips the dreamer’s wife to her anatomy. But are intimacy and transparency synonymous? Is the dreamer seeking something which can be located and revealed? In answer, Bouchardon splits a soliloquy into overlapping elements of a conversation--before resolving this portrait of a relationship in process." -- From The New River Journal