This sculpture request was prompted by a sculpture that Christian Funk did in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany as a statement about climate change (according to Greenpeace). My client wanted something similar (and smaller!) for their winter themed party.

    While I was looking for polar bear reference photos, I found a surprising photo sequence of a wild polar bear playing with huskies. Apparently, the photos are real and not photoshopped.

    The design below was adapted from a design that I’d had for some time, but apparently never used. The sculpture in the photo at top was carved without the benefit of the template below and therefore doesn’t match the design exactly. The sculpture requires two blocks, but you can see, in the second block, there’s a lot of unused ice. You can take advantage of that extra ice to make the sculpture base larger, carve additional elements, or make it into rough chunks that can be placed around the base (as in the photo at top).

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The following comments were 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

Thats a really great design! thanx for sharing it.

Butter

Saturday, February 2, 2008 - 12:43 PM

Dawson

Glad you like it; thanks for the comment!

Saturday, February 2, 2008 - 11:24 PM