A significant portion of how we interact with the web is through forms. We click buttons, we fill out text boxes, we take polls, we select, deselect, fill in, and move on. What Alexei Shulgin has done is break these forms out of any context beyond the object itself and a few prompts. He lets the buttons and text fields take on a life of their own - almost like building blocks for the new structure.
At first glance the work seems haphazard and pointless. But the object of the piece becomes clear about two clicks into the page. It's addicting. You keep following each button, jumping around the page to find something new, then trying to find your way back to where you were to try and find an unexplored branch of the page. This one page manages to sum up the addictiveness of our web browsing habits - we follow one link, one form and keep clicking and backtracking until we have to go, get ourselves stuck in a corner, get bored, or occasionally leave by choice.
I really enjoyed this piece, I found that the more I navigated through the site the more I thought about what exactly I was doing and how similar this was to my usual habits on the web. I was also really entertained and impressed by how the forms we've come to think of as insignificant and purely functional pieces of a web browser were turned into such whimsical creations. He turned tick boxes, radio boxes, text fields, and buttons into animations, games, geometric designs, and words. The reveal of what he has done is quite impressive as well - you have no idea what you've gotten into when you click that first button.
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