Icebergs, glacial ice, sea ice, sheet ice, pack ice, shelf ice, pancake ice, grease ice, stagnant ice, fast ice, land-fast ice (AKA shore-fast ice), frazil ice, ice floes, nilus ice, ice melts, and the ice-cold stone-sober look of disbelief as the seas rise 66 meters in a world with no ice.

To commemorate significant events, we mark experiences with annual holidays, honored symbols, cultural objects, and supporting narratives, in the hopes that the commemoration makes it easier to remember (and learn from) important historic events. Commemoration elevates ecological events from an otherwise ordinary historical sequence, it also has the power to index environmental values. Chronicling ecological loss through commemorative objects allows us to acknowledge our ecological legacies and critically reflect on our collective and individual environmental impact.

The Commemorative Ice Picks project, code-named “Warm Soda,” honors global ice loss, across physical and temporal scales, ranging from the microscopic ice crystals of Santa’s frozen tears in the North Pole, to the anticipated continental melt down of the 5,400,000 square mile Antarctic ice sheet down South.

Collaborators: David Buckley Borden, Jake K. Byers, and Isaac Martinotti.