Cut, Copy, Paste.

From February 4 through April 28, 2017, The Workshop featured an installation called Cut, Copy, Paste.

Inspired by the museum-wide reinstallation of the PMA collection in February 2017, it continued the theme of looking at old favorites in new ways.

Hundreds of visitors selected a small detail from one of the painting which intrigued them and copied it onto a paper tile. These individual copies were pasted together on the back wall, creating an evolving collaborative version of the work of art. As the project continued, participants recreated each section over and over, leaving stacks of paper tiles layered up to 24 pages deep. No copy was a perfect replica—each tile was an artifact of someone’s looking, thinking, and exploring. Each one introduced us to some facet of the work that we might never have seen if we were looking alone.