A Thousand Nights and One Day
A Thousand Nights and One Day
A Thousand Nights and One Day
A Thousand Nights and One Day
A Thousand Nights and One Day
A Thousand Nights and One Day
A Thousand Nights and One Day
A Thousand Nights and One Day
A Thousand Nights and One Day
A Thousand Nights and One Day

A Thousand Nights and One Day

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Puzzles Pieces

on Canvas

36" x 48"


Composed entirely from individual puzzle pieces, A Thousand Nights and One Day by Meredith Maher draws inspiration from the Middle Eastern collection of folktales One Thousand and One Nights, a body of stories passed down through centuries and known for characters such as Aladdin, Ali Baba, and Sinbad the Sailor. Like the tales themselves, the work speaks to imagination, storytelling, and the way meaning unfolds gradually through layers of narrative and experience.

 

At the center of the composition is Reem, depicted in early childhood. The process behind the work is as layered as its reference. Maher first painted a portrait of Reem, then transformed that painting into a puzzle.

 

Those same puzzle pieces were later reassembled and embedded into the final artwork, allowing the image to exist simultaneously as memory, process, and finished form. The result is a scene that feels both intimate and expansive, where childhood and storytelling converge, echoing how personal histories and shared folklore are built piece by piece.  

Meredith Maher is a contemporary artist whose work is meticulously constructed from individual puzzle pieces. Her practice began with a simple yet unresolved question: could an image be created from mismatched pieces? When she discovered no clear precedent, curiosity turned into experimentation, forming a singular visual language shaped in part by ideas that first emerged through dreams.

 

Each artwork is assembled from hundreds of carefully sourced puzzles, requiring months of searching for precise colors and tones during the process of creation. On average, a single piece can take four to five months to complete. Maher views her work as a reflection on memory and time, exploring how fragments of the past are reconstructed in the present and reshaped into new meaning.

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