Amazing Martin Luther King, Jr. Portrait Made From 4,200 Rubik’s Cubes

This undertaking is from 2010 , but it ’s such an amazing and strange achievement it ’s still worth sharing today . Artist Pete Fecteau created a vast muralcommemorating Dr. Martin Luther King , Jr. out of more than 4,000 individual Rubik ’s cubes , with each square on each cube hand - arranged to create the elaborated image you see above .

On his web log , Fecteau saysthe mural measures nearly 10 feet tall and almost 20 foot full . Assembling the 4,242 cubes in the necessary arrangement took 40 hour . Entered in the 2010ArtPrize rivalry in Grand Rapids , Michigan , the mosiac , entitle “ Dream Big , ” place in the top 50 from over 1,700 entry . Read more about ithere at MyModernMet .

Pete ’s still doing graphics and design workplace today — check out his piece of work here , includinghis design for an 8,484 cube mural dedicated to Albert Einstein . He ’s using Rubik ’s cubes in a more productive and disingenuous way than just about anyone I know . [ MyModernMet;Pete Fecteauvia@BurritoJustice ]