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In [|Greek mythology], Pandora was the first woman. She was created as a gift to Prometheus by the gods. But it had evil intentions in the background. Prometheus gave the secret of fire to the mortals, so they could make new things and cook their food. However, this enraged the gods. They didn’t want the humans to know about the fire. So they started their plot against Prometheus and gave him this malignant gift, that later, opened the box that contained the evils that now haunts mankind, such as illness, insanity, passion. The only thing that was left in the box was hope. So Pandora ran to tell mankind, that not all was lost, that there was still hope. My project takes this beautiful story from the ancient Greek times as a concept of developing. I’m making a cube that contains the human face inside of it, so I used this story as a concept for my cube. Structurally my cube its made by other 27 little cubes. The center cube its the skeleton that supports the other 26 cubes and hold them to their position. When all the faces of the cube are turned upside down, six different faces (One for each of the cube’s flat faces) appear. And each little cube can be removed and changed for another to form infinite different faces by combining them. Basically, it is a tridimensional puzzle. The materials I used to create it are wood, for the structure, clay to model the faces and gypsum to remake the faces even stronger and lighter. To find a way of combining such a rigid shape as the cube with an organic one isn’t easy, I had to make a study of the face and geometrize it to its simpler form, but without losing the particular aspects of my face that was the start point. But in the end, it was worth it because all that I wanted to make in this project was possible and I’m seeing satisfactory results. media type="youtube" key="cKfKmaVhA5o" height="344" width="425" []