Natasha D'Souza

I went to Winterlude, in Ottawa, last weekend. It was the first time that I had attended Winterlude on opening day. This gave me the chance to see the different artists hard at work creating their sculptures. They took big blocks of ice and used various tools to carve out the different shapes. Getting the blocks of ice to stay together is quite the art as it involves scraping the ice block until it’s even, heating a piece of aluminum and putting this on the block to melt it a little. The other block is placed on top, thus becoming “glued” together.

The person in the photo is one of the ice carvers and has been coming to Ottawa from the U.S.A for the past three years. He teaches culinary arts and enjoys coming to Ottawa for Winterlude. His creation ……