Engrenage de glace / Iced Gear

A gear (usually in metal) in a very special condition: frozen. Actually, this is a gear sculpted in ice for the Winter Carnival of Quebec City,... more

by Dominique Fortier

Title

Engrenage de glace / Iced Gear

Artist

Dominique Fortier

Medium

Photograph - Photography

Description

A gear (usually in metal) in a very special condition: frozen. Actually, this is a gear sculpted in ice for the Winter Carnival of Quebec City, Canada. It is a part of an ice sculpted bar located outdoor on a very popular street during this event: la Grande Allee. This could have been titled also "Wheels", "Wheels of Fortune"?? (maybe to find love in such a place??), "The Turning Wheels", "The Wheels of Life". What else?
But like this, "stuck" in ice, it can symbolize that the car is ice cold and won't start in the siberian cold mornings of the North, causing so much trouble all around. Can symbolize also that, more generally, nothing's working, that one encounters difficulties, that there is a snag (in French, we have an expression that says it like this: "un grain de sable dans l'engrenage" (litterally "a grain of sand in the gear"). Here, we could translate the picture by "un paquet de glace dans l'engrenage" (a sack of ice grain in the gear).

Dominique Fortier has created this artwork suitable for 7" x 5" Greeting Cards and Prints up to 84.00" x 47.000".
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Copyright Dominique Fortier, 2016. All rights reserved.

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February 3rd, 2016