Nicole Dextras, a environmental artist from Canada creates massive typographic ice sculptures that beautifully blend with the landscape that she chooses. Other than being visually poetic, these ice typographic sculptures directly relate to their surrounding and also reflect the vulnerability of words.

Once these sculptures are installed, they are left behind on the mercy of nature, it is the temperature that determines the life span of these sculptures and how long it takes them to transform from solid to liquid.

"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." shares Nicole, further adding, "Ice Typography absorbs light, melts and eventually leaves no trace; these words have more in common with dreams and oral stories than linear language. Words cast in ice interrupt our literal narratives, allowing a more integrated reading of the land we inhabit, as opposed to the past and current commodification of land as limitless resource. This fundamental split in perception lies at the crux of our environmental crisis. I therefore choose to create within an ephemeral vernacular to accentuate the collective physical and psychological experience of flux and change."

Let's have a look at these sculptures below:



















































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