Environmental Graffiti

Art is a Dish Best Served Cold

When Hongtao Zhou sees snow, he doesn't make snowballs. Instead, he uses his creative powers to make art out of a useful and sustainable material. To that end, the graduate art student recently ventured out to frozen Lake Mendota near his University of Wisconson - Madison campus to build 'ice and snow furniture' that look quite fit for the dining room of an ice palace.

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The Dachstein Ice Portal

Deep inside this glacier you'll find a frosty world filled with majestic marbled columns of ice, skillfully carved sculptures and captivating music. And that's not all: the Dachstein ice palace also features a giant porthole that enables visitors to see into an enormous crevasse inside one of the world’s largest glaciers. Tourists are certainly treated to a unique experience as they poke their heads into a frosty fissure measuring 40 m (43.7 yards) long, 17 m (18.6 yards) deep and 2 m (2.2 yards).

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