Obra Incompleta

I came across this guy, Vik Muniz, while looking through a book called Masters of Deception. The book covers a whole gambit of artists that deal with tricks of the eye in some way or another. Some were just cheap trompe l'oeil, but some artist were doing some amazing things. Like Shigeo Fukuda. His shadow sculptures are really great. This is something I thought of a few years back (I have the crappy sketchbook notes to prove it), but, of course, never pursued. It just goes to show that one can never think of anything new, especially little, dumb me.
But let's get back to Vic Muniz, huh? This Brazilian dude creates images out of the most unlikely substances - wire, thread, sugar, dirt over a lightbox, Chocolate, piles of toys, dust, nails, and even clouds. Unfortunately, he expends all his imagination on the process or material of the image, without much thought about the content. He usually "copies" or pays homage to well known pieces of art, like Time-Life photos, Stieglitz, Warhol, Smithson, and so on. Still, the images he creates are amazing and insanely clever. For instance, he noticed that people like to watch other people draw. He is right, it is a magical process to many people. Therefore, he hired a plane to draw cartoonish pictures of clouds over the Manhattan skyline. Or he recreates the Nasca Lines (which are absolutely amazing, by the way) but with modern everyday objects, like a coat hanger, or envelope. One of his most effective process is with the hole-punched magazine pages (like the self portrait above). I am trying to think of a way to incorporate something along these lines for an illustration. It fits with my scrumbly, collage, textured surface look that I have been leaning towards lately. Most likely, I will forget all about it, and swear that I've never heard of any Vik Muniz before, or for that matter, any fancy dream country called Brazil.