Canada-based graphic designer Nicole Dextras creates large ice sculptures as part of her ice typography installations.

Dextras makes three-dimensional texts with molds that she fills with water and freezes, assembles them in a scenery that she feels speaks the words best to the viewer.

The words are then left out in the open, to melt away—with the temperature of its surroundings determining how long it would take for them to change from solid to liquid state.

“This phase of transition becomes symbolic of the interconnectedness of language and culture to the land as they are affected by time and by a constant shifting and transforming nature,” Dextras wrote. “The use of text in the landscape relates to concrete and visual poetry but with the added twist of having the word’s meaning alter with the melting process.”

Sometimes the words relate directly to the landscape, some reference art history, other words signify an environmental statement warning of man’s encroachment on the land and how we consume space with our gaze.

“[I] choose to create within an ephemeral vernacular to accentuate the collective physical and psychological experience of flux and change,” she wrote.











































[via My Modern Metropolis]


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