I opened the metaphorical doors of the Jigsaw Puzzle project on the 15th
of September 2005 and quickly got to work on the very first piece. The
concept was simple, it was partly inspired by my collaborations with
the notorious TheExquisiteCorpse club and partly inspired by an
interest in the art internet culture that exists on Deviant Art.
I wanted to create a little world for everyone, a collaboration that
was not bound and constrained to anything, growing organically and
beautifully like the faces in a crowd. The giant quilt-work of
diversity took the form of a Jigsaw Puzzle, with each artwork in the
shape of a puzzle piece. The only rule that I instituted was that
every artist had to blend their own piece into a piece that was adjacent
to it.
I laid the first piece down on the 25th of September, and advertised
the newly available four adjacent pieces to be booked by artists on a
first-come first-served basis, wh
