Ice in the stratosphere, ice in a glass, black ice on the road, icicles dangling delicately from a tree, ice opening a river into a convenient road. Oh ice, you are everywhere! Sometimes we love you, sometimes we eat you, sometimes we fear you.
Welcome to The Ice Cubicle: the office for all things ice. This creative blog gathers art, information, images and stories about ice (posts tri-weekly: Mon, Wed, Fri bi-weekly starting October 09).
Join me on this connection with chilliness as I use this blog to:
- admire any ice formations I can get my eyes on
- profile artists who work directly with ice
- continue working on my own ice-melt drawings and ice percussion instruments
- gather scientific information about different types of ice & ice behaviour (including the impact of climate change on ice formations)
- bother people both near and far for personal anecdotes about ice amazement
- explore the incredible world of ice music
- dream about visiting extreme-ice geographies
- how ice affects culture, and how culture affects ice
Meg Walker
A bit about me:
I’m a visual artist and writer who moved from Vancouver, BC to Dawson City, Yukon Territory, at the end of April 2009. This decision came from a variety of reasons, including fascination with the Northern landscape.
I started using ice in my artistic practice in June 2008. So far I’ve used it in static, melting or breaking formations to make drawings, sculptures and percussion instruments. I plan to use my next 12-18 months here to deepen my knowledge of ice, both as a natural phenomena and an artistic/cultural presence – how ice affects culture, and culture affects ice.
If you want to email me directly, drop me a line at icecubiclemail [at sign] gmail [dot] com, I’d love to hear from you.
Matthew G. Wheeler has been working with and on photographs that he takes using an ice lens.
http://www.whistlestopgallery.org/Matthew.G.Wheeler.htm
By: Andrea on June 17, 2009
at 00:36
what a good idea! there are some cool blurring effects from the ice lens, almost crystal shapes in a couple of them. thanks for the tip, Andrea!
By: goodcoldwater on June 17, 2009
at 01:07
Ice is nice.
By: Kyle Blais on September 18, 2009
at 23:09
COOL is coming in Feb 2010…there will definitely be ice
By: Jan Cox on December 8, 2009
at 17:11
site looks awesome, COOL artists very interesting (& mysteriously minimal in information) … & the Outpost 409 land(scape) makes my heart beat faster. I would come eat/drink/fest/rest at your 34″ ice-and-snow-laden table anytime. curiously, I can’t tell where it’s physically located?
By: goodcoldwater on December 8, 2009
at 20:11