What is this? Think of this as sort of a worldwide jigsaw puzzle or dissected map using one of my paintings for the pieces and this website as the means of putting them all back together again. This website is a sub-project of The Bookmarks II Project run by The Centre for Fine Print Research at the University of the West of England. Go here to check it out: http://www.uwe.ac.uk/amd/cfpr/bkmks2/.

The title of this project is 'Pieces of Work', which is a play on words, since the painting used to create the bookmarks (or pieces of the online puzzle) consists of layers upon layers of database designs and diagrams at its core. Designing and diagramming databases and web applications is part of the actual work I do for a living.

Each bookmark is assigned a unique combination of bookmark number and password. If a visitor to the site is a holder of one of these bookmarks, he or she may enter in this combination login and begin to see the painting take shape. The system records the initial entrance into the site and will then continuously display that piece of the painting on the virtual canvas. Each logged-in user will also have the option of entering comments that all visitors to the site may read.

To view the virtual canvas and see how this painting is coming along so far, click here.