Ice Follies 2010

Andrew Van Schie, The Auger Project, 2010

For Andrew Van Schie’s Auger Project, “the artist will organize a small group of volunteer workers to auger 1500 holes into the ice of Lake Nipissing. The holes will be randomly arranged and will be completed on the day of the opening of the Ice Follies. The holes will be cleared and marked with bamboo poles upon which are attached solar-powered LED lights.” During the day, the orange plastic flags flutter loudly with the wind, and at night, well, that glow was magical.

Artist Bio:

Andrew Van Schie is a painter and site-specific installation artist and a video artist living in North Bay, Ontario. His work can be seen in collections across Canada and in Europe. Andrew’s Ice Follies creation will consist of a very large wooden “pyre” and an iceblock wall. He will document the process of constructing the wall and the structures placed within the wall. Several days after the opening of Ice Follies Andrew will be setting the wooden piece ablaze to again document the act and to allow the piece to become a “spectacle”.