Ice Hole

Read history, write poetry, tell jokes.

Ice Hole can be understood as a group of jokes or short pieces written through old objects. Each work begins with a traditional object and reshapes its form through digital methods such as 3D modeling, scanning, and 3D printing. The object keeps the physical weight and outward appearance of its history, while the meanings once attached to it are stripped away. In their place, new stories are introduced from popular culture, internet culture, and personal experience.

At its core, Ice Hole treats meaning as something that can be detached from form and reassigned. A solemn form can carry absurd content; vulgar language or imagery can take on a refined appearance. Once form and meaning are no longer treated as naturally bound together, the object can be named and narrated again.

Each work becomes a compressed short story, joke, or fable contained within an object. The story is not fully unfolded in written language. It remains embedded in the object’s form, its materials, and the mismatch between what it appears to carry and what it now means.

Ice Hole also reflects the media environment of the mid-2010s, when attention increasingly displaced content and things were rapidly viewed, consumed, and forgotten. In that environment, meanings that once seemed fixed became easier to detach, replace, and recirculate.