images from left to right:
1. Measuring the ice blocks
2. Nisse, the best power ice sawer of Norbotten
3. Ice structures made
by power saw
4. Workshop impression

2nd OF MARCH: Time is getting short, carving is not finished yet. After lunch we could start to freeze
the photoprints onto the surfaces of the ice blocks. To get the blocks into the cubes
we needed help. But on a bright saturday afternoon it was not that hard to
find friendly strong men who could help. There were so many people enjoying a stroll
while watching the artists at work. All ice blocks in place I wondered how to get them
clear so the photo prints would be visible. Risto, one of the finnish artists came by and
saw my problem and just mentioned: ‘You need to iron it’. An hour later Sara brought
me a household iron, it worked perfectly and suddenly, by ironing the ice, I was the
amazing attraction to all visitors that afternoon.
Late afternoon we could start drilling the holes for the neonlight tubes. It was hard
work and had to be done carefully, so the light would shine through the snow and ice.
Also the series of cubes with coloured ice had to be filled with crushed ice and coloured
water to freeze during the night. We where hopeful this would work, cold as it was:
minus 20 degrees Celsius. But it soon turned out that not all of the prepared plastic
inlays where watertight. At midnight, really frozen by the cold, we gave up.