My Early Muir Owl - The most complex marriage proposal ever?

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.
Aye – originally from Surrey – proposed to his girlfriend, Sara Cantor, a planner at another design firm, at a fake opening party on Friday, in Chicago art gallery 40000. The gallery was exhibiting the work of non-existent artist 'Serge Gandaora' – actually an anagram of 'George and Sara'.



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'.

For tradition's sake, Aye went down on one knee as well – and he was rewarded when Sara said yes.

'I'm completely floored,' said Aye on his blog.