ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author provides a brief ethnographic sketch of work on a jigsaw puzzle as a means of clarifying the origins and actual import of the claim. He considers the puzzle is one that featured an artwork by the David Hockney. The idea of the first sort had been to find the border pieces as the "obvious" place to begin; on the other, it was to identify areas for working on the puzzle and, therein, to restrict the searching of the pieces to more local groups. In this puzzle, there were about 80 pure white edge pieces and a similar number of completely white non-edge pieces. Starting with the border seemed uninteresting, mechanical, time-consuming, and undoubtedly frustrating. Instead, the author's plan was to start with the bottom banner of letters spelling "David Hockney." He thought the task would be relatively easy; He also thought that its completion might help in the construction of the puzzle border.
