Giclée Print (100 copies)
Size: 18×24″
Artist: Brian K. Johnson
This portrait of Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, is constructed entirely from HTML. The source code of the image you see is actually there to read, and his own words—the foundational documents that imagined and described the Web in its earliest days. Layer upon layer of text forms his likeness: HTML specifications, early proposals for hypertext systems, philosophical musings on data access and decentralization.
Rendered in a blue-and-white palette evocative of early digital screens and web-safe color schemes, the portrait bridges concept and code. The result is a visual archive—a reminder that the Web was not only engineered but written into being.
In an era defined by digital overload, Johnson’s piece invites a return to the source—to the raw, hopeful architecture of what the web once was, and might still become.