The Tundra - Melting Ice Precious Earth Project brought 12 tons of natural ice from Lapland to France to create a compact ice circle protected with a layer of French soil and grass on top. The ice melted despite its protection, and the size, mass, power and strength of the material. No matter how much ice there was, the delicate metaphor for nature, cannot take heat. The ice disappeared in front of our eyes, and the process was irreversible.

The Tundra sculpture intends to raise awareness of the melting process which is taking place globally on an incomprehensible scale and with globally devastating consequences. The polar ice, glaciers and permafrost are melting at a high speed, with dramatic and tragic effects that many of the world’s population have already experienced.

By Laila Kolostyák, 2007.