The Cosmati Pavement at Westminster Abbey is one of those objects that rewards getting much closer than good manners normally permit. Intricate stone, glass, geometry, pattern, and centuries of history are packed into a surface designed to be walked across.
Naturally, I wanted to put The Face in it.
PAVEMENT begins with a detailed scan of the Cosmati Pavement and treats it much as I plan to treat the Bayeux Tapestry: preserve the extraordinary whole, then quietly alter the details. Tiny Faces are worked into the patterns, hiding among the circles, tesserae, stonework, and geometric forms. The visitor explores it with a loupe, complete with a chain so no one steals it. We have standards.
Photoshop and Gemini are the pavers here, master tile craftsmen carefully inserting The Face into a work whose complexity makes concealment almost too easy. Claude helped turn the idea into an interactive gallery and, in that increasingly familiar bit of magic, not only showed me how it could work but exceeded what I had imagined.
There is something remarkable about having an idea in the morning and walking across it by afternoon.
Mind the Faces underfoot.