It’s a good thing that environmental artist Nicole Dextras hails from Canada, because we don’t imagine that her stunning installations — which range from 8-foot high ice letters on the Yukon River to 18-inch high letters in downtown Toronto — would survive for very long in warmer climes. “The visual poetry in this series aims to subvert the authority of the English language and the commerce of signage by representing words as vulnerable and shifting,” she explains. “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.” Click through to check out a selection of images from the series, and head over to Dextras’ website for more of her creative work, which includes clothing that’s made out of weeds and dresses frozen in blocks of ice.
Image credit: Nicole Dextras. [Spotted via designboom]
Image credit: Nicole Dextras
Image credit: Nicole Dextras
Image credit: Nicole Dextras
Image credit: Nicole Dextras
Image credit: Nicole Dextras
Image credit: Nicole Dextras
Image credit: Nicole Dextras
Image credit: Nicole Dextras
Image credit: Nicole Dextras