Tabletop Jigsaw

The uploaded photograph is the image printed on a cardboard jigsaw, die-cut into interlocking pieces, most of them assembled on a wooden table. The two people are still those two people, in the same pose and clothes; the cut lines run through faces and furniture without rearranging anyone. A few pieces sit loose beside the almost-finished picture — they belong to the same photograph, not to another puzzle. You can see the grey cardboard edge of a piece, a bit of table grain, a cup out of focus at the rim. Not a mosaic of ceramic tesserae, not toy bricks, not a photo with a fake crack overlay.