Cityscape

My sister recently got back from a semester abroad in London. Not having her around for that long was a big change for me since we are so close. I decided to distract myself by making a painting for her that emulated her time in London. Earlier in the semester she had taken this picture while my parents were visiting:

I decided to recreate this picture in a painting and created this piece:

After creating the piece for my sister I decided to further explore what I had created in a new piece. From my experimentation I came up with this:

In this piece I decided to use a red sharpie to further accentuate the feeling of the piece. I still haven't decided if I like the first one more or the second but either way they were definitely fun to make.

Cirque

This past summer the camp I was working at held a show of "Cirque de la Symphonie". One of the acts was a performer spinning a huge cube made of steel rods. (Seen below in a picture I took myself)

This semester, in class I was presented with the challenge of creating a piece of metalwork that had moving parts. Remembering the show from the summer I decided to create a metal cube with the ability to spin on its axis. Unfortunately, my unfamiliarity with soldering made this goal especially difficult. Several tries and  burnt fingers later this is the piece that came out:

My plan was to make it so that it is able to move, which it now does. If you push the cube in the center it spins just like in the Cirque Show.