Making of "Tangled Web"

Behind the Scenes

After spending the bulk of the 2004 holiday season designing, fabricating, re-doing, uninstalling, re-installing [you get the picture!] this website, it seemed only fitting that my first artwork of 2005 reflect the monumental endeavor.

I spent many hours staring at HTML code in stupefaction.

I wanted to share this experience.

These are the back and front of a piece of painted canvas. It is HTML code from the pages of my website.

Of course, using the painted canvas like this was too straightforward to simulate the experience of building the website.

My process of website development was much more convoluted.

One of the hardest and fastest rules of HTML code is that EVERYTHING has to have opening tags and closing tags. When a right-brain artist approaches a left-brain-needing task, "staying within the lines" becomes a comedy of errors.

By cutting the canvas of straightforward code into strips, I am attempting to illustrate the dangling pieces of code that I inadvertently misplaced, lost, pasted improperly, used incorrectly and generally mis-appropriated!


In this picture, I have laid out the canvas strips, alternating black and white, and taping together the larger "chunks"of code that will eventually allow these misaligned scraps to be woven together!

In this picture, I have laid out the canvas strips, alternating black and white, and taping together the larger "chunks"of code that will eventually allow these misaligned scraps to be woven together!

HTML code is the structure upon which visually exciting web pages are built.

Sometimes, colorful graphics can cover a multitude of sins!