Every decision you make has knock-on effects and trying to tell a simple story is in fact like putting together a jigsaw designed by Satan.
Such jigsaw-puzzle designs resist easy decipherment while implying a general sort of psychic trauma: here, bits of Socialist Realism; there, figures out of Courbet (or is it Delacroix?), all of it suggesting something about a post-cold-war world, but shruggingly.
"American Beauty," his best movie, was shot in exquisitely designed jigsaw pieces that just barely fit together.
They intend to continue the puzzle concept, so next summer's Aganovich jigsaw pieces will fit together with future designs, too.
In January, Ms. Couvelaire opened a site, www.arts-eshop.com, where jigsaw puzzles that she designs can be seen.
I tip my hat to the ever-inventive Nina Ball, who matched Bill English's peculiar gift for jigsaw-puzzle stage designs by creating a pillared atmosphere that worked for Covent Garden, the Ascot Racetrack and (with the clever use of two sliding panels), was easily transformed into the living room of Professor Higgins' home at 27-A Wimpole Street as well as his mother's garden.
In postings on internal mailing groups, users of Wikipedia have described obvious mistakes in the design, a globelike jigsaw puzzle with characters from various languages on the pieces.
Then there are the more conceptual additions, as Sally Graveling, Jigsaw's head of woven design, explained when describing a wraparound shirt: "We were thinking of the wrapping of the petals on a flower".
Cut out the design using your jigsaw.
The exact design of a jigsaw puzzle frame varies between brands.
