Parasoleil

In 2005, while rafting down the Grand Canyon, metal artist Uriah Bueller was reflecting on his journey. Six years prior he launched his blacksmithing career with a plan to establish a metal studio that built oversized birdcages (not for birds). Since then, he had been making sculptures, furniture, and custom architectural installations with galleries throughout Colorado representing his work, but when someone on the raft asked him what he did for a living, he had had enough uninterrupted time sitting in the canyon to realize that most of his work centered around framing space to make people feel more welcome. That realization made the rest of his trip full of new architectural ideas and made him recall his very first patterned copper panel installation a few years prior where he freehand cut over 30 panels and their modular patterns for a shade structure. As soon as he got off the raft, out of the canyon, and back to Boulder, he got to work building Parasoleil.