What fascinating ideas! Grids are medieval techniques, but I haven’t thought to use them in this way. I had thought more of doing the grid and then adding images to each rectangle. It is so common to remember where on a page you read something you are looking for, so the brain seems to grid things naturally. I must try gridding in this way.
I can see the logic of using a grid for many paintings, but I wonder if it is appropriate for Bruegel’s Children’s Games. The 80 games seem to form a natural set of locations.
I have decided to encode a course in classical music to the painting. I found a list of the supposedly 100 greatest classical composers and asked my social network friends to reduce it to 80 by eliminating those who I don’t need. They eliminated and added and I have ended up with more than I started with!
Now to start listening and encoding.