There’s companies that make perfectly good pictures, laminate them on a nice heavy backing, and then cut them up in little pieces. And we buy them like that.
We actually enjoy putting them back together, then we relish in our accomplishment.
How weird is that? I mean, the artistry of taking the photo, or painting the picture or even the craftiness to mount it beautifully to be displayed can be genius! But taking such a work, then getting it especially cut up so you could put it back together? And once together it is usually crumbled up and placed back in the box. If you do leave it together, you mount it, frame it, and decoupage it to look nice in spite of all the little grooves where the pieces connected. Somehow we like the challenge of putting together puzzles, and we want a challenge of definite proportions with definite outcomes. I think they can actually be therapeutic, helping us to sort an connect thoughts, and giving us those small victories that encourage us to keep on striving for solutions to those hard problems in life.
Things that make you go
Hmmm!
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