He spent nearly two years creating the 6,000 paintings for the Halifax library work. Cliff Eyland, 65, is being remembered for his tiny art, which filled the walls of the Halifax Central Library and Winnipeg's Millennium Library, shown here. In art school he became fascinated with library file cards — soon to be obsolete technology, she said, which he found inspiring. One of his students has since become an educator at the Winnipeg Art Gallery. In a Facebook post, Winnipeg Art Gallery CEO Stephen Borys recognized the way Eyland's work transformed how "we see and engage with art."

Source: CBC News May 16, 2020 22:18 UTC