This puzzle goes with Tectonics– as in, originally it was a two-puzzle package. But I didn’t know until I entered the second one into the cataloging site and realized how others had listed it. Mine were both bought thrifting, separately. I really like the image- it’s quite interesting, and makes me keep thinking: what did the artist mean by it? (if he meant anything at all). My first thought is: knowledge holds back a flood of ignorance. Or, the seclusion and escape of reading shelters you from a flood of reality, that might seep through and break it all down at any moment (see the book in the wall starting to slide out)
My husband said he thought it meant something about how powerful knowledge can be “that a book can contain revolutionary thoughts. It can take one book to change the world. E.g. Mao’s little red book” (and the book sliding out is red). Any which way, it’s very intriguing. I also really like that one of the paintings (or windows) in the wall of books, is this whole image itself repeated (but apparently missing the other images in the wall)
Also intriguing: this stamp on the back. I found it when I signed the last piece placed (starting to get in the regular habit of that). I assumed it was a date stamp someone before me used to mark their completion of the puzzle, but nope. It’s one that got scrambled, or something else and I’m left wondering.
It was fun to put together, I spent a whole morning just doing that on the weekend. The foliage surrounding, and the water retained, were the trickiest parts. I thought at the beginning there would be quite a few missing pieces, but I had some misaligned due to false fits in the edge pieces. Only one missing in the end. The false fits were a bit annoying, and also the poor quality of the puzzle- relatively thin pieces, several with the picture layer lifting off or a knob bent. Won’t hold up to that many re-dos. It’s decent, but just not the best. I hope to find this puzzle again, from a different manufacturer (better made) and with a larger piece count. I know there’s some out there.
Very standard piece shapes, straight ribbon cut, squarish shapes with fairly uniform small knobs (boring). Finished size: 18 x 26″.
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I really like that image and have seen it someplace else…probably just on the internet, I suspect. Those false fits drive me nuts, but I can’t remember the company that was consistently doing that to me a couple of years back. Their puzzles were pretty generally sloppily cut on top of the false-fitting pieces, so I tried to avoid them.
This is really helpful, isn’t it? lol
I’ve hard worse. This one it was just a bit annoying, others felt like they were driving me bonkers. And I do avoid those cheaper brands now, if I remember which the are.