Men and women sit at sewing machines to get their image together.
"Clearly we can't use a photograph of a deceased person, so we've had a forensic artist put an image together".
"I've always been obsessed with the combination of packaging, design and the image together with the sonic and how those things interact.
It wasn't wide enough for cartoons; you needed two passes to scan one, then the software would stitch the image together.
"I thought, we have to get through to these people," said Jerry Dammers, of the Special AKA, "and that's when we got our image together and started playing ska".
In a succinct introduction, David Bindman, the author of several authoritative volumes on Blake as an artist, tells how Blake, trained as an engraver, invented a technique for printing word and image together, which he called "Illuminated" printing.
The other night I skated over to the opening of Benson's "Beyond" exhibition, at Hasted Kraeutler, and the results are awe-inspiring; their simplicity and clarity belie the time it takes to stitch each image together.
"They really knew how to put an image together," says Molly Frances, the art director and fashion editor of Arthur, a hip Los Angeles magazine that covers the neo-Aquarian revival.
"Coke has got a chance now to really get its image together," said Joe Beasley, the human resources director at the Antioch Baptist Church North, steps from Coke's headquarters in downtown Atlanta.
The ghostly white linen robe he wears is displayed alongside the image; together they foreshadow his later works about the disappearance or transfiguration of the human body, like the oversize hanging necklaces of glass beads that dominate this exhibition.
There were also comments, which ranged from lighthearted ("Congratulations on your prime-time photobomb! Stay thirsty my friends …") to critical ("The reflection is wrong. Who put this image together?").
