Video: Ice typography by Nicole Dextras
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
For people who love warmth all year round, the climate of the northern country of Canada will seem incompatible with life. But the artist Nicole Dextras Canadian cold helps in creativity. At least in her project Ice Typography.
Canadian artist and graphic designer Nicole Dextras is already familiar to regular readers of the site Culturology. RF. We talked about some of her projects. For example, about the ephemeral beauty of her frozen dresses or the extraordinary Weedrobes clothes made from plants. Another facet of her remarkable talent is creating ice inscriptions as part of the Ice Typography project.
Ice Typography by Nicole Dextras can be seen throughout Canada from Vancouver to Quebec, from Toronto to the country's northernmost arctic regions. Everywhere they are the same - huge letters made of ice and snow. Sometimes these materials are tinted to create an even more meaningful visual effect.
Nicole Dextras herself explains the essence of her project Ice Typography: “Words are cast from ice to break the literality of the story. This allows us to make a complex perception of the land on which we live. The times are passing when the Earth is perceived as a renewable resource - this path has led to a fundamental economic and environmental crisis. Therefore, I decided to emphasize in this way the collective physical and psychological experience of movement and change."
Nicole Dextras's Ice Typography is set in some of Canada's most significant and interesting locations. Somewhere very crowded, somewhere completely uninhabited. But everywhere they emphasize the beauty of nature and the negative, consumer influence of man on it. And even the material, ice, was chosen by the author in order not to harm the environment with his works - after all, there is nothing more natural than water. Moreover, frozen water, which after a while will melt and go into oblivion, back into nature.
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