Archive for 2008

Market days on Fulton Street

Posted on December 20th, 2008 by puzzler

The French have a saying: plus ça change. It’s short for plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. It means, ‘the more things change, the more they seem to stay the same’. Translated into jigsaw-speak, it means that, no matter what puzzle you’re doing, if it has a lot of sky it’s going to [...]

The tornado

Posted on November 26th, 2008 by puzzler

Gale Pitt’s ‘The Tornado’ is essentially a montage of everyday objects and animals (food, furniture, frogs and so on) on a background of peaceful countryside. Only when you see the cows and sheep panicking, running for their lives, and the people who have been spared from the tornado’s greedy mouth, do you realise that it [...]

Get well soon!

Posted on November 15th, 2008 by puzzler

No need to worry about catching MRSA in the hospital depicted in Jan van Haasteren’s ‘Get well soon!’ The dangers here are incompetence, extreme disorganization and, perhaps, just a touch of madness. Nowhere else (except maybe in a Carry On film) will you see ripsaw-wielding surgeons chasing their patients round the hospital. One white-coated doctor [...]

The invitation

Posted on November 9th, 2008 by puzzler

Most people, whether they are religious or not, know the story of Noah and his ark. The story of a global flood, in fact, goes back thousands of years, long before most of today’s religions were born.
Christian artist, Tom duBois, brings the Flood story to life in ‘The Invitation’. Its vivid realism makes it [...]