mural

This isn't new (two years old), but it's new for me, and perhaps for you too. "One Blood, Many Nations," a United Nations mural mosaic painted live by Lewis Lavoie.

What I love about this piece is that it's not a computer mash-up of miniature photos that thanks to the magic of digital matchmaking render out to create a larger whole. It is instead a painstakingly planned and executed exercise in manual dexterity that involves, not several hundred images, but a scant 20. Which when placed in near each other proximity yield something else, not something better.

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