I forgot to document this one and it was only when I saw the trailer to the new Batman movie that I remembered I had made this in 2010.
Ammonite goes back to Hollywood
This was made in the same project where I made my Matrix sculpture, in Roermond, The Netherlands. Having just a few days left I had to get a move on and quickly make up this scene to represent the Dark Knight. It was a simple affair with just the hero and some Gotham Architecture.
Weathering away to perfection
Always with ice, you make things slightly bulker that they are supposed to be. This allows for the sculpture to slowly melt over the time of the exhibition and look it's best for longer. That is the reason my batman had a few extra pounds. I knew that as time went on he would lose them and all of his surfaces would resolve themselves so he would look himself. The pointy ears were also given room to improve.
Behind him, if you can make it out, was a character from 'A Nightmare Before Christmas'. Those beautiful boney fingers wouldn't last pissing time and would need to be recarved.
For the architecture, I used lots of blocks of white ice to build up some semi-Gothic archways. Time was very much against me and this seemed to be a good solution, making things look more complex than it actually was.
As a finishing touch, I made lots of bats from plates of ice. These would be added on to the background like the few samples I had made. It was best to let the lighting guys do their work before adding the delicate details. Of course, I had to leave the project before all these finishing touches were made and I never got pictures of how everything looked in the end. It is one of the things that really frustrated me about these early days of Ice sculpture in Europe, never seeing my finished work.
Nowadays, the sculptors and the lighting guys can include the lights near the end of the carving process and get to finish everything and make it look its best for the audience and for photos.
Batman is another saga that we were growing with. Everybody dreamed to have such impressive Batmobile and gadgets, but also to live in such luxury castle.
Yes, now I realize that when creating ice sculpture, you have to think about the melting time and how the figures may lose their shape and that is good idea to make the figure a bit bigger than it should be so that visitors still can enjoy the beauty of creations.
You have done every good work on face of batman, very recognizable. As always amazing creation
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When I am carving ice it is very much a living thing. Sometimes I will carve rough and allow it to melt itself into shape. This can be a fun aspect of this type of work. I have also learned that I need to be thinking about how will this sculpture look after a few weeks with people breathing on it. Thanks for curating me.
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