Covid 19 has been many things to many people, and the world has many stories. I’ve found myself seeing the humor, sadness, frustration and hope reflected in some puzzle boxes during this time, and have collected these musings here.
Japanese Karakuri Creation Group artist Yasuaki Kikuchi has been thinking about life in the pandemic for a while, and wanted his new creation to express his observations, his frustration, his belief in science, and his ultimate hope.
It is not the premise that reality
Is solid. It may be a shade that traverses
A dust, a force that traverses a shade.
- Wallace Stevens
“I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.” ― Franz Kafka
“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
― Philip Pullman
“Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.” - Henry David Thoreau
In light of the escalating global pandemic I instead strongly advise everyone to stay home with this apropos puzzle box from the doctor of devious designs, the original Raleigh renegade, Eric Fuller.
Of course everyone responds to a pandemic in their own way. If you happen to be an Australian dentist with lots of drills and no teeth in sight, you start dreaming about a virus puzzle.