Carved in Ice returns to Diamond Park
On Friday morning, sculptors from DiMartino Ice Company unloaded giant blocks of ice from their trucks and stacked them into three walls of about 5 feet each around Diamond Park.
The ice had been frozen in a process that removed any air bubbles from the interior, and the sculptors used water as mortar and some dry ice to smooth out the surface, according to ice sculptor Jared McAlister, of the DiMartino Ice Company.
Three sculptors would spend the evening hours from 5 until around 8 p.m. using a chainsaw to carve the ice into sculptures, including a firetruck and a police car.
“It’s a hard frozen ice with no air, so that’s why it’s completely clear,” he said. “Each block is about 265 pounds and it’s enough to keep itself cold. It melts a lot slower than the ice from your freezer.”
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