I Made This For You by Chris Ashley.

An advent calendar featuring drawings, created not with Photoshop or Illustrator, but with HTML code, a “medium” Chris often works with, as well paint and canvases.

Considered as a form of painting, Ashley’s HTML, virtual and non-physical as it is, prompts musings such as, “What direction is the light coming from?” or, “How big are they?” The works don’t conform to painting’s standard vocabulary, deriving their color as they do neither from mass tone (the light reflecting off an opaque surface), nor undertone (the light filtering through a translucent skin). Distinct from painting in this corporeal aspect, what seems most salient to the experience of viewing them is their transparency, how readily accessed they are. Ashley’s HTML images are to canvases as emails are to handwritten letters, ephemeral but profoundly convenient.

Best viewed with your HTML validator switched off :)