Tim Klein is a puzzle montage artist, taking pieces from various jigsaw puzzle sets and re-arranging them to create a new incredible image.
According to Klein, he was inspired by a 1988 article about art professor Mel Andringa, whom he considered as the “undisputed master of puzzle montage.”
As for the process, Klein says, “Jigsaw puzzle companies tend to use the same cut patterns for multiple puzzles. This makes the pieces interchangeable. As a result, I sometimes find that I can combine portions from two or more puzzles to make a surreal picture that the publisher never imagined.”
Doing this art form may be a difficult undertaking but for Klein, it is always an adventure discovering peculiar images lying latent within the pieces of common puzzles. “As I shift the pieces back and forth, trying different combinations, I feel like an archaeologist unearthing a hidden artifact,” he added.
