Click for distant view.  
Or back away ten feet.

SAMUEL MORSE
Morse code. laser jet print, 10" x 8"
© 1999 Ken Knowlton



detail

Each tight sequence of "dots" and "dashes" is a character of International Morse Code. Early in his life, its originator Samuel F. B. Morse was a respected New England portrait painter. One may wonder what he would have thought of this portrait in which he unwittingly collaborated.