Process

Naturally, working the lion puzzle made me want to return to jigsaws.  This was my first stop:

Sorry about the glare on the bottom left.  The art is by Charley Harper, and features winged creatures.  Birds, of course, but also a bat and a butterfly --- both, naturally in that glare-y quadrant.

Taking this apart to start on another, it struck me that puzzle-working has an interesting aspect to it.  We go all through the process of finishing the picture, then completely dismantle what we've just done. We tear it all up.  But then we save it, keep it for another time we feel like putting it together.  I mean, we don't finish a painting to destroy it, sure we'll come back later and paint it over again.  We don't finish a knitting project, rip it up and pack the yarn away just to return to make precisely the same thing again.  But puzzles allow us to make them, break them, and rebuild them at another time.  That's sort of what they're made for.