The ice sculptures remind me a lot of old Calvin and Hobbes strips. In the one, Calvin makes a whole bunch of little snowmen and then pretends he is a T-Rex, going on a rampage, in another he builds a snowman on a sunny day and uses the melting as a metaphor for the agony of our existence. I wonder if the original artist got his inspiration there?

Finally, there's a strip where Calvin gives up on creation and just goes around writing his name in the snow, claiming ownership over landscape 'installations' that naturally occur. I wonder if some creatives are getting their inspiration from this strip?