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The fun of it was to pick up and transform what the other person left and see how the painting evolved in unexpected ways.Īnother inspiration for the Zoomquilt was the Gridcosm project, a similar infinite collaborative picture started in 1997 and still ongoing.

They would reserve a spot and get a frame with a border of the neighboring tiles they had to blend their artwork into. An artist would contribute a single tile of a patchwork painting called a 'Quilt'. It worked similiar to the surrealist drawing game Cadavre Exquis. The project was started by Nikolaus Baumgarten and emerged from a scene of people creating collaborative patchwork paintings together over the internet in the early 2000's on websites like.

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