Ice Pro in Florida scored the trifecta recently, when their client managed to get virtually all of the most annoying objects into the background of their sculpture! Not only is there a fire alarm and a light switch on this particular nearly-white wall, there’s even a pretty large unknown door of some sort, smack dab in the middle of the wall. The crowning achievement, however, was the placement of the lighted EXIT sign right at the top of the floral display! I personally would have moved the EXIT sign up about six inches, so that it was even more distracting, but that’s just me.

    This photo really illustrates how important the background of your sculpture is and also what kind of problems can easily arise. Joe at Ice Pro told me that they asked to move the sculpture when they saw the proposed location, but they were informed that there was just no other place for it. And you can’t cover safety equipment like fire alarms and EXIT signs; that’s the sort of thing that fire marshals like to write tickets for! So the end result is a clean, elegant ice and floral display, with an ugly background cluttered with distractions. Only one thing can save this sculpture from its background: Photoshop!