In an earlier entry, I talked about sculptures that fell because they slid off of the display. Unless you have a compelling reason for your sculpture to move around, you should always be sure that the ice stays put.

    Ice slides on plastic. Period. If you put fabric between the ice and the plastic, you can stop it from sliding. I often use a single cloth napkin and I try to keep it from blocking any uplighting. If there’s no uplighting, I sometimes put a tablecloth under my sculpture and use the excess to ruffle around the base. Be sure that any cloth you use stays inside the tray. If it extends outside the tray, water will soak up into the fabric and leak from the fabric outside the tray.

    Some displays, such as the rotating tray from Gourmet Display, have little pegs that stick up and help keep your ice in one place.

    If you salt ice that you put around your sculpture (Don’t salt the sculpture itself!), the ice will melt and refreeze together so that it will generally hold the sculpture in place.

    If you’re assembling a sculpture, be sure to keep your foundation pieces from sliding as this will make assembly much easier.

The following comment was on the original blog entry. After some technical difficulties, the blog had to be reconstructed, and this was the only way to keep the original comments.

Anonymous

To keep an ice sculpture from sliding I use a couple strips of card board under the ice.  white cardboard almost disappear.

Saturday, March 31, 2007 - 09:07 PM