The death of NBA star Kobe Bryant and eight others, including his 13-year-old daughter Gianna, rocked the sports world and beyond on Last Sunday. While some expressed their grief through Instagram captions and donations to the Mamba Sports Foundation, magician and Rubik’s Cube artist Steven Brundage turned to hundreds of cubes to pay tribute to the late Lakers shooting guard. After more than 20 hours of assembling and using 814 cubes, Brundage created a smiling portrait of Bryant, a technique credited to Giovanni Contardi.
He said that he wants to connect the cubes together to make it into one work of art and auction it off in order to “donate a portion of the proceeds to Kobe’s foundation or another that will carry on his legacy.” He’s also hoping to use more than 1,000 giant cubes to create an even bigger mural of Kobe in his honor. “There's nothing in the world that can prepare you for losing one of your heroes,” he told me. “Once the first wave of grief passed, I just sat on the floor and started working, almost in a trance. Usually, there is a design stage, but in this circumstance, I just threw myself into it. Maybe that was the way I needed to deal with the emotions I was experiencing.”
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