Findings on IceĀ from PARSĀ offers a refreshing diversity of voices that contextualize one topic, ice, in different ways. Part of theirĀ āAtlas of Creative Thinking,ā PARSā goal was toĀ ā[bring] together artists and scientists to share their vision on wide-ranging topics.ā
On contextualizing ice (from their site):
Findings on Ice features the work of artists and scientists whose binding interest is ice. Their findings range from the quirky, humorous and beautiful, to the mind-bogglingly complex and disturbing.
Ice is the greenhouse effect and rising sea levels, but also the cold stare across the aisle, the crux of a play, the muscles of a dancer before the first movement, the silence between the notes, a German railway company and a substance that holds no fossils. It absorbs sound, reflects heat, and we eat it with a little sugar and cream whisked in.