I have been a Mac user since the 1980s.
I followed Steve Jobs from those early years. Not only the products, but his ideas about technology, design and business. I kept following him even through the difficult years.
I owe a lot to Apple.
The Mac changed the way I worked. But Apple also changed my life in another way. In the 2000s, my mosaic portraits of Steve Jobs travelled around the world. They introduced my work to a much wider audience and opened doors I could never have imagined.
So when Apple entered a new chapter, I wanted to mark the moment.
Hello to What Comes Next started with portraits of Steve Jobs, Tim Cook and John Ternus. It then grew into a larger series of static and moving mosaics, especially around Ternus.
The works are made from Apple’s own visual language. Early pixel icons from the Macintosh years meet contemporary macOS icons.
For me, this is what makes the mosaic so fitting.
Small pieces build a larger image. Old and new live together. One generation becomes part of the next.
There is nostalgia here. But this is not a project about looking back.
The future is always made, in part, from what came before.
Another transition.
Another hello.
Another hello.
Hello to what comes next.
John Ternus, built from the visual language of early computing. Hundreds of tiny icons become one portrait. A new face assembled from memories of where it all began.
John Ternus, assembled from fragments of early digital culture. Tiny icons remain visible up close. From a distance, they become the face of what comes next.
John Ternus: A new beginning assembled from the symbols of an older one. Pixel-art fragments from computing’s early days become the material for a portrait that looks forward rather than back.
You can access the high resolution file here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/tsevis/55502625164/
Tim Cook: A portrait built from the memory of early computing, looking across decades of change. The old icons remain, but their meaning shifts as Apple moves from one era into another.
You can access the high resolution file here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/tsevis/55502465706/
Steve Jobs: A face from the beginning, built from the visual language of beginnings. Nostalgic pixel icons recall a moment when personal computing still felt unfamiliar, playful, and full of possibility.
You can access the high resolution file here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/tsevis/55502569473/in/photostream/
Godspeed, John Ternus. Best of luck!