Jigsaw
‘Jigsaw’ is the result of a 6 week project bringing together stories from Belfast, Ballymoney and Omagh. It is one of 2 puzzles in the exhibition, the other being ‘Childsplay’.
The puzzle is double sided and is made up of 16 individual pieces, each piece created by a young person. On one side a happy memory is shared and on the reverse, more difficult times that they experienced.
While the puzzle is the final outcome of the project, the process that the group went through to get to that point was more important.
For most it was the first time they were encouraged to reflect upon their lives, identifying both happy and sad times—these occasions were represented by various patterns designed exclusively by each person. They then had to select those that had the greatest impact and paint them onto their jigsaw piece, the pattern representing that particular memory forms the perimeter of the piece.
