Piece by Piece

Today I am smitten by the Pieces of Things and how, combined, they are greater than the sum of their parts. First. The Mona Lisa reduced to the largest pixels still recognizable as Mona:

MONA LISA REMIX BY GRAPHIC NOTHING

Leonardo da Vinci's 'The Mona Lisa' reduced & remixed down into 140 exact circles of colour. Makes no sense close up. Makes every sense from the other side of the room.

Here a piano piece is played by isolating each note and assigning it to a different piano player. This is an incredible job of editing.

Christian Marclay's wondrous project, 'The Clock' which my husband found quite by accident in LA this spring. Now I find that it will be at the Boston MFA and I simply must catch it while in town. The video is self explanatory.

Next, not having anything to do with the' theme du jour', but because I said I would- here are a few quilts that use vintage dish cloths:

Cave Canum

Filling Negtive Spaces, or, as my friend Teddy Pruett named it, 'The Yeller Quilt'

Boomerang Quilt

Learning to Sew

Hazel's Baby Quilt

The Buck Stops Here (damask)

Blind Tag

Doris Downsizes her Dishtowels

Hibiscus

And there ya go- tomorrow I show you quilts made from quilts, and I have spared no antique tops for this! If the original piecer didn't love it enough to finish it, I feel like I am doing a favor by finding a re-use. That's my story and I'm sticking it, so if you love a quilt, never give it to me!