I recorded the process. Sadly, the camera's battery ran out and the sun went down before I could completely melt the snowball, but I used the footage I got to make a video. I sped up the footage to four times its original rate and reversed it so that it ends up as a fully formed snowball again. Here's a low-res version of that video:
Here are some process stills I pulled from the video recording (note how much clearer they are...stupid video file size limits...):
And here are some images I took during the act itself:
It was a pretty spontaneous thing--when I did it, I was thinking about using heat to carve out an architectural interior space in the snow over time, without ever touching the snow. The color was a playful element--I thought it would be more exciting if there was a reveal involved in the process. It also made it sort of bodily, like the snow was bleeding, or growing orifices. When I showed it to my class, the professor suggested that there was some sexual tension between the heat gun and the responsive snow. I honestly hadn't been thinking consciously about that dynamic when I made this, but I can definitely see how he got there. This is an important piece for me to look back on because it was my first concrete experiment with video as a medium, and because it involved me performing an action.
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