images from left to right:
1. Gozo under ice
of the river Luleå
2. Öresund under ice
of the river Luleå
3. river Elbe under ice
of the river Luleå
4. as Vegas under ice
of the river Luleå

RÉSUMÉ

To participate at the biennial was a great experience, I enjoyed it very much. It was
our first experience in working with snow in art. I learned a lot and while still in Luleå
I already developed new ideas for future events.
In practical I learned how hard and at the same time how fragile snow can be and
that water will not freeze as fast as expected even when mixed with crushed ice at
less than minus 20 degrees.
Working in art often requiers a lot of adjustments during the progress of work. With
snow and ice I had to find a lot of different solutions even before we got started.
Email is helpful. Almost every day I had to exchange emails with Sara to discuss
technical problems and solutions.
For future projects I can now easier judge how to deal with snow and ice and the
time required by each process. But according to Timo, the other finnish colleague,
we were lucky with the weather. With snow fall at night you might just as well spend
half a day just shovelling the snow off your sculpture...
With more experience in this field i’d probably have more time to establish closer
contact to other participants. We had to work so hard that there was little time for
smalltalk except during short breaks. But by just watching the other artists work I
learned a lot about creative and experimental tools which were used by more
experienced colleagues.
If I did this project again, I would just do one series of cubes and do them more
perfectly, especially the shapes and surfaces. And, should there be a next time,
I will learn using a power saw – even if I will never be able to wield one as large
as Nisse’s...