Connect The Dots

As designer Graphic Nothing (aka Gary Andrew Clarke) says, these prints "make no sense close up. Make every sense from the other side of the room." He's taken the concept of reducing an image to individual spots of color much the way a tiny thumbnail on the web would, deconstructing them to a bare minimum 15 by 10 pixels or so before he blows them right back up. Knowing the names of these iconic originals allows our brains to process these otherwise unrecognizable collections of colors, and the further away you get from the canvases, the more your brain can imagine what the dots represent. Or in other words, you'll be able to connect the dots to the image it's supposed to suggest.

The concept may not be completely new (I have a very similar art piece of my own based on this) but I love the way he reinterprets the pixilation, via perfectly round, even spots of color. Even moreso, now you can display trite visual icons like the Mona Lisa (above) in your home, or even the album cover of Michael Jackson's Thriller (below) because they're so playfully reinvented by this process.


Thriller is particularly funny, because MJ's complexion is reduced to about 5 different shades of skin tone, and knowing how he whitened as he got older, you'd be hard-pressed to say which one is the right one.

Both of these prints and more are available as part of Graphic Nothing's Art and Music Remixed series, available in European A3 (starting at £19) to A1 sizes (£46). Get them at Graphic Nothing's Some Prints website, here.