Cube Works in Toronto Makes Murals out of Rubik’s Cubes

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Cube Works in Toronto Makes Murals out of Rubik’s Cubes

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Ripley’s Art

Collecting strange and unusual art is something we do here at Ripley’s. Whether it’s art made of unusual materials or created by an artist with an amazing story, it’s it somehow out of the ordinary, we’re all over it.

In the case of pieces made by Cube Works, our curiosity was two-fold. Not only is the artwork made of Rubik’s Cubes, someone has to solve those puzzles before their final placement!

Cube Works

A studio based in Toronto, Cube Works is a small collaborative of artists with special talents.

They’ve become renowned for their work with Rubik’s cubes and Rubik’s-style cubes, but they create art out of a lot of different materials. Some of their other work has been done using LEGOs, Crayons, and Dice just to name a few.

The studio is directed by Josh Chalom, who holds records for his Rubik’s Cube murals.

The only thing more impressive than the finished products is the work that goes into creating each piece.

The Process

Standard Rubik’s cubes only feature six colors: white, red, blue, yellow, orange, and green. So the first thing that has to be done is the image being recreated has to digitized and reduced to a pixelation those six colors.

This is built into a kind of blueprint—a grid that maps out the colors of the image and tells the artists what color Rubik’s cube goes in which spot.

From there, the team of cubers play with the puzzles to get them set up in the colors they need. The artists solving the cubes are all capable of finishing in 30 seconds or less and assemble between 700 to 1,000 cubes a day.

After the cubes have been matched to the blueprint, they are fastened to the panels.

The Finished Products