Video: MIT 150th Anniversary Ice Sculpture
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
This year marks the 150th anniversary of the founding of one of the largest and most respected technical universities in the world - the famous Massachusetts Institute of Technology, known throughout the world under the abbreviation MIT. Here, as part of the activities to celebrate this anniversary, a student named Yushiro Okamoto created an unusual ice installation with the title IceWall.
It looks like ice sculptures are in vogue this season. More recently, we told you about the ice castles created by the resident of Minnesota Roger Hanson from the geothermal heating system of his own home. Now we want to tell you about the ice wall IceWall, erected in honor of the anniversary of MIT.
Back in the fall of last year, Yushiro Okamoto began creating huge ice bricks, inside each of which he placed the seeds of various plants. In early winter, he built a wall of these blocks on the lawn on the MIT campus. To it, he added lighting, giving this installation of amazing beauty in the evenings.
In the form conceived by the author, this ice wall stood until spring. But in early March, with the arrival of heat, IceWall began to melt. However, this was not the end of the IceWall installation at all, but only the beginning of a new stage in its existence, conceived by Yushira Okamoto. After all, the melting ice loosened the ground under it, made it wet. This is where plant seeds embedded in ice bricks came in handy.
These seeds fell into the ground and began to germinate there. So IceWall's author expects these plants to be in full bloom by the end of May. And his installation, dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or rather, its logical continuation, will delight the eyes of students, teachers and guests of MIT until the fall.
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