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Chicago Cloud Gate - Bean Sculpture Model
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I am a Chicago native and have lived in and around Chicago my whole life. One of the things that Chicago is most known for is it's architecture and art around the city, most notably Cloud Gate, aka “The Bean” in Millennium Park. I've visited Cloud Gate a countless number of times and always take any friends or family from out of town to Millennium Park to see “The Bean”. It really is an amazing sculpture to see in person and really fun to walk around and under it, and see the reflections of the city skyline. It is one of Chicago's many landmarks to see when visiting the city. I created my own scaled down version of “The Bean” which was a bit difficult because the whole sculpture has some very complex curvature. I tried to simplify it but still make it accurate and close enough to the original design. I come from a product design background, so I usually don't work on a lot of ornate objects/sculptures. But Cloud Gate is something that has some meaning to me and I had fun working on thi
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