As I’ve said before, when Louis Manzoni was snapping pictures at the 2002 Olympic Arts Festival ice carving event in Provo, UT, he was taking the photos that I’d like to think I would have taken too. Not only was he taking lots of pictures of the sculptures, he was getting photos of the tools and techniques that the sculptors were using. And at an event like this, the world class ice carvers weren’t holding anything back; any useful trick, tool, or technique would be used if necessary.

    From Louis’ photos, I’ve selected a number of them that I thought demonstrated the use of interesting or unusual tools and techniques at the 2002 event and posted them in a new gallery. For the most part, I let the pictures do the talking. Questions or comments about the gallery can be added below, as they can’t be posted on the gallery itself.

in Cantine & Butauski’s finished sculpture, titled “Marksman,” you can see the weld lines in the bowstring where they surprisingly used many smaller pieces of ice to build the delicate structure