 The eye in Ciro Santilli's website banner

Ciro was trying to make his face fit on the banner. But it is hard because faces are square and text is long.

Then at one point, the CSS was a bit broken and the eye stuck out just left of Ciro Santilli.

At this moment, Ciro knew what to do.

This produced a "continuous image symbol to text" effect that felt so right.

Finally, by adding another eye to the footer of the page, this also added a symbolic dimension to things: the pages contain what is in between Ciro's eyes: his brain: Section "Braindumping".

The concept, like any other, is not in itself new and has been used by others, Ciro just independently rediscovered it again: