Winnipeg ice carver excited to display work after months of preparation
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Winnipeg ice carver Corby Pearce is excited to display his work in the city at The Forks as well as some walking trails on Sunday.
Winnipeg ice carver Corby Pearce is excited to display his work in the city at The Forks as well as some walking trails on Sunday.
He says he is using ice he harvested a couple of weeks ago.
“I am cutting it into pillars that will be lining the walking trail tomorrow night, as well as a larger sculpture to be at The Forks and some bigger pieces that’ll be doing some live demonstrations there tomorrow.”
Pearce says harvesting the ice for these projects is a very cool process.
“We’ll find a big field in the middle of the river. We’ll keep it as clean as we can of snow for as long as possible during the winter,” he said.
“We’ll cut the lines and we’ll do cross cuts and then we use bobcats and other machinery to just scoop up under the ice.
“Then from there the ice gets put on a mill and once it’s milled and set up it can be delivered to the places where people need it to do ice carving projects,” he says.
For the past two weeks, downtown Winnipeg has been decorated with ice sculptures, made by Pearce and other sculptors from around the globe.