A mobile screen has a dimension of 10 cm x 4 cm (height x width). A mobile user is viewing a picture in portrait mode and it occupies the entire screen. The user rotates the screen to landscape mode. After rotation, the height of the picture is now the width of the screen and its width gets reduced proportionally, leaving equal blank spaces on both sides of the picture. What is the area (in square centimeters) of the blank space on the left-hand side of the picture?