Video: Martin Luther King Jr. from 4200 Rubik's cubes. Installation Dream Big by Pete Fecteau
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Inspiration, like the east, is a delicate matter. It is not clear where it comes from and where it leaves, but by catching it by the tail, you can move mountains. Well, or pyramids … So an American artist and designer Pete Fecteau spent most of 2010 playing with Rubik's Cubes and putting them together in a huge mosaic: a portrait of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dream big: under this name this project was released. The artist says that it was like an obsession: he woke up at three o'clock in the morning, and did not find peace until he laid out on paper the concept of the future creation. Then it took him several more hours to create a computer version of the future installation. The rest of the time he spent collecting cubes and putting them together in this giant mosaic, where each cell is a pixel of a certain color, and each cube is a whole bunch of pixels, already arranged in the right order.
To some, such a system of work will seem like a saving of time: spreading several pixels at once on a "canvas", instead of building a picture one cell at a time. But in fact, this is a much more complicated and time-consuming process - these "pixels" are dependent on each other, and to "pack" them into one cell, you need to work hard. It resembles a logic game: first solve one problem in order to get the key to solving the next. And Pete Fecteau enjoyed playing it for almost a year.
In a relatively short time, Pete Fecteau constructed a portrait of Martin Luther King Jr. using 4242 Rubik's cubes. It is believed that this mosaic is the largest in the world, as it measures 45 cm in length and 22 cm in height, and weighs more than 450 kg. You can see how the work was created in the following video:
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