SINGAPORE: Singapore's first ice gallery will open
on November 1 as a permanent feature at Snow City in
Jurong.
Designed around the theme of dinosaurs, the ice
sculptures will be fitted with coloured lights, waterfalls and even
an ice slide.
To prevent the ice sculptures from melting, the
temperature is set at minus 10 to 12 degrees Celsius.
The installations are produced by Singapore's national sculpting
team which has won various international ice-carving
competitions.
Team captain Jeffrey Ng said: "The first step you have to do is to
stack up all the ice blocks, and each ice block weighs about 140
kilograms. Then you'll have to start to draw onto the ice, And from
there, you start to carve."
"Ice-carving is an art, but the lights are the spirit of these
arts. So we need all these lights to enhance the whole ice carvings
so it looks grand and nice," he added.
- CNA/fa