In the summer of 2015 I was commissioned to create a new art piece. The couple commissioning the work was going to give the piece to a dear friend who had officiated their wedding. We discussed all the themes they wanted to get across in the work, most importantly friendship and community. We all agreed these themes have a lot of cheesy design solutions attached to them and we wanted to avoid common tropes. The challenge: create a piece about friendship and community that wasn't tacky, overly sentimental, but still deeply meaningful to everyone involved.