Every year for almost the past decade, I have made collages that capture either a family vacation or events that occurred during the year. I often have these made into jigsaw puzzles that I enjoy working, for the activity itself and also because as I work the puzzle, it bring back the memory of the people and places involved.
As everyone knows, 2020 has been (and continues to be) quite a bizarre year. There has been little chance for in person contact with other family members. As a result, the puzzle is less a collage than an arrangement of disparate events. Rather than overlapping pictures, I have set them in isolation against a background that represents the planned trip to Arizona that we had to cancel. In addition, just to try to make it more interesting, each picture in some way connects to at least one other picture in some thematic way. I did have to fudge some and pull in some pictures from 2019 as well, and, of course, a couple are considerably older.
Here’s the picture that the puzzle is based on - 1014 pieces.
