{"product_id":"jardin-du-paon-puzzle-en-bois","title":"Peacock Garden Wooden Puzzle","description":"\u003ch3\u003eA peacock in a garden that grows past the edge\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe bird sits in profile against a pale gold moon, tail spilling forward and down across the lower half of the disc. Around it the garden is night-dark, deep indigo scattered with white and gold points, and out of that darkness come peonies and roses in magenta, blush and cream.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe circle does not stay a circle. Individual blooms break past the edge and stand proud of it, so the finished outline is a disc with flowers growing off it at four or five points.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eTwo boards in one\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe tail is the largest area and the most patterned: dozens of eye feathers in turquoise and gold, each ringed and repeated at slightly different angles. The garden behind is the opposite, dark and loose, with flowers reading as soft masses rather than as defined shapes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBetween them sits the moon, a broad field of pale gold crossed only by the bird's neck and a few sprays of leaves at its rim.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat people do with it\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe eye feathers are what pull the puzzle apart into sessions. Because each one is a small self-contained motif, they can be sorted into a cluster and placed independently of everything around them, which means the tail can be worked in short bursts and then left. The dark garden does not permit that: its pieces only make sense against their neighbours, so it tends to get done in one long sitting once the tail is in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe flowers that break the outline get handled last and separately, since they connect to the board at a single edge each and have nowhere else to go.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhere the difficulty sits\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe moon. Away from the neck and the leaf sprays it is a smooth gradient from cream to deeper gold with nothing to hold on to, and the pieces in it can only be placed by the shape of their cuts. Everything else on this design gives you something to look at.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat the peacock has meant\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn Greek myth the eyes in the tail are the hundred eyes of Argus, set there after his death. Early Christian art took the bird as a symbol of immortality, on the belief that its flesh did not decay, and it appears in that role on tombs and in mosaics. The later European reading, peacock as vanity, is a secular addition to those two.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAfterwards\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA compact square of a design, and the flowers standing off the edge stop it reading as a plate on the wall. It wants a plain background: hung against patterned wallpaper, the garden and the wall compete.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256695079043,"sku":"PC102","price":25.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/27_7a51ed99-175d-49f5-837a-f40ce4448562.jpg?v=1780866794","url":"https:\/\/creatifwood.fr\/en\/products\/peacock-garden-wooden-puzzle","provider":"Creatifwood","version":"1.0","type":"link"}