Any men thinking of popping the question to their beloved – start worrying. Because bar's just been raised for the amount of effort you have to put into your marriage proposal.
Going down on one knee wasn't quite enough for George Aye, a designer from Chicago. So he decided to propose in a more elaborate way, with the help of an art gallery, some computer modelling, a laser cutter and an awful lot of foam core.
The artwork – actually made by Aye himself – was a complex, abstract piece featuring a large number of unusual white shapes on poles, called My Early Muir Owl.
Constructed over the course of several weeks out of laser-cut foam, after planning the piece by creating a 3-D model on a computer, the artwork just looked like a collection of random shapes… except when viewed from one angle, where it spelled out 'Will you marry me?'
Going down on one knee wasn't quite enough for George Aye, a designer from Chicago. So he decided to propose in a more elaborate way, with the help of an art gallery, some computer modelling, a laser cutter and an awful lot of foam core.
The artwork – actually made by Aye himself – was a complex, abstract piece featuring a large number of unusual white shapes on poles, called My Early Muir Owl.
Constructed over the course of several weeks out of laser-cut foam, after planning the piece by creating a 3-D model on a computer, the artwork just looked like a collection of random shapes… except when viewed from one angle, where it spelled out 'Will you marry me?'
'Will you marry me', of course, is an anagram of 'My Early Muir Owl'.
