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144 sections of a painting were given away at the Tate Modern on 20 June 2009. Each recipient is invited to upload an image of their section to re-composite the whole. Below is the reasoning behind this decision.
The painting created for µ was divided into 144 pieces to reflect an essential aspect of enlightenment: not one, not two. The possibility of enlightenment for any individual being is dependent upon other beings acting out of their own enlightenment. In this particular case, an awareness of the whole painting is dependent upon the owner of each individual piece presenting that fragment to everyone else. This is accomplished by making an image (which need not necessarily be a photograph) of the fragment and emailing it to painting /at/ onewordorless /dot/ com. These images are then posted in their appropriate grid location, and gradually (or suddenly) we are enlightened to the whole picture.
