A Theory of Puzzles: Process, Product, and Slowing Down
I've been putting together a puzzle. A couple of weeks ago, I felt inexplicably drawn to a 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzle that had been sitting in my closet for I don’t know how long. Turning for a moment from the unrelenting news coverage of COVID-19, the collapse of our routines, and a head-space of hurried, half-completed thoughts, I opened the box. To acquiesce to being puzzled, to accept and even invite puzzlement, with the goal of assembling a work that you might very well t