If you can read my handwriting you will understand what the exercise was all about. I first rearranged the pieces with no limitations. and it looked quite a lot like the original image but concentrating on the brown bits as the guiding focus made it more interesting.

What I learned from this is the fact that an abstract shape can come develop from something that is already part of an image. if you focus on it and change its relation to the rest then it might lead the eyse to see something completely different. kind of fun!