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.