Michael Gerdsman crochets electrical goods – mobiles, a hairdryer, microphones, and pot plants, while Raimundo Camilo obsessively draws over Brazilian banknotes with a ballpoint pen, encrusting them with whorls and faces and tiny patterns.
"We're as fascinated by huge structures, like the pyramids, as we are by tiny patterns we see in New York bridges or alleyways," says Clayton, who's half Danish.
Blocks of walnut are cut and sanded, and tiny patterns are carved into the wood.
"When my depression erupts and I feel like climbing the walls, the repetitive action of painting tiny patterns can keep my brain distracted for hours".
The off-white suit with the tiny moonlike pattern?
"I find it a tragedy people had to die," said Mr. McBride, dressed in gray slacks and a tie with a tiny elephant pattern during a recent conversation in his tidy corner office.
They are thin, yellowish brown, elongated ovals about 0.25 inch (6 mm) long with five prominent longitudinal dorsal ridges interspersed with less-distinctive secondary ridges forming a tiny, gridlike pattern.
All the Amintas were good, and Marcelo Gomes, accommodating those big, beefy legs of his to Ashton's tiny, tatted patterns, was more than good.
In order to concentrate the listener's perception on the rhythm, melodic material – most of it pinched from a book of Lithuanian folk tunes – is extremely simple, sometimes reduced to tiny repetitive patterns of a mere two or three pitches.
