GENOMICON

Ok… it’s not really a painting… it’s using paint as a sculpting medium… but still

It’s worth watching the guy’s other videos on Youtube… the ball could be mistaken for really insanely skilled craft… but his art goes deeper than that. Here (for example) a bass-reliefs of castings made of Taliban bullet holes from Afghanistan… which he cast himself

I’m quite interested in this… in a tangential sort of way, because CNC fabbing makes “showpieces of skill” from yesteryear, downloadable and printable… for example $20,000 antique wooden watches from Russia

Could probably be designed in a CAD system, and fed to a CNC machine. Especially now gaps are being filled… hardware problems are being solved as software problems, eg: this online cog generator:

Which is not to say that Piers Secunda’s puzzle is part of this process – it is (I think) good old fashioned skill, honed over many years. But it’s only a matter of time.