Ice and snow sculptors from around the world chipped away at their creations in one of China’s coldest cities to compete in the annual international ice and sculpting competitions, bringing spectacular design concepts including an aurora that occurs in earth’s northern hemisphere known as the Northern Lights. - REUTERS
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00:00We first participated in 2006, over the past decade or so we've attended most of the years
00:17whenever we had the time to do so.
00:20Coming here is always a great experience because we treat it as a holiday and it's a wonderful
00:24opportunity to exchange ideas with artists from around the world.
00:32We believe in shamanism, Tengrism, so that's why we are building a shaman who communicates
00:39with the cosmos and the drum is like a sun, the drum is the sun in fact and when the shaman
00:46comes out it shows its totems and communicates with the cosmos.
00:56The sculpture Aurora Borealis is a representation of a planet with you that will be located
01:02at the top and at the bottom of the sculpture where we will also sculpt a moon then we will
01:08create movements to represent the northern lights which can be observed at the North
01:12Pole.