Collaborative Square Art

Here's a fun thing I did recently - I created a 12"x12" collage of concentric squares, cut it into 4 pieces, kept one square for myself, and mailed the other three squares to my swap partners.

In turn, I received 6"x6" pieces of similar collages from 3 different artists, with the intention of putting the four squares together to make a new piece of art.

Here's one corner of the piece I created from hand-painted papers and washi tape:

Like a dope, I forgot to take a picture of the entire 12"x12" collage before I cut it up and sent it out, so here's a crappy simulation to give you the general idea:

(This is just that one square digitally duplicated and rotated.  The original was made as a single piece and so everything lined up quite nicely)

Here are the pieces I received:

from Carroll

from Donnalee

from Steph

 and here are the four pieces all together.

 Fun, huh?

Many thanks to Steph for coming up with the idea and hosting the swap.