Story highlights John Sutter talks with artist Mishka Henner about his \"Dutch Landscapes\" series The series focuses on an artful effort by the Dutch government to censor Google Maps <\/p>\n
It would be hard not to smile, right? <\/p>\n
I mean, what is that alien thing? <\/p>\n
An oversized kaleidoscope? <\/p>\n
A rip in the Matrix? <\/p>\n
Some kind of freakish, town-sized cauliflower? <\/p>\n
When Mishka Henner, a 38-year-old artist and photographer, came across these \"blurred\" images of Dutch landscapes on Google Maps, he was similarly perplexed and amused. <\/p>\n
\"Well, I laughed,\" he said of the initial discovery. <\/p>\n
The hidden zones are \"not only bases, they're also royal palaces and fuel depots and ammunition depots and that sort of thing,\" Henner told me. The Dutch government \"used a pretty spectacular method for hiding these locations, which does everything but hide them, basically.\" <\/p>\n
Photographer Mishka Henner <\/p>\n
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