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Team USA, Oregon: First Place,
People’s Choice
“They Call Him Old Man Winter” |
His face is worn. He leans relaxing
on his fist. weary with the heaviness of life. Yet there is a
subtle smile and softness in his eyes that speak of insight. There
is a knowing that nothing lasts forever. All is transitory, and
like this sculpture, come into being but for a brief time and
then are gone. |
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“Cool Jazz”
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Music takes the listener and the composer
into new realms. Our trebel clef takes a trip into the third dimension,
just as a musician improvises on a theme, and returns, stronger
and wiser, to the initial melodic shape after one circut. |
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Team Canada-Ontario: Third Place, Artists’ Choice “Almost There”
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If
I can just get this tail finished… Just a little more tilt,
oh maybe a little more. After all this time, my origami squirrel
is almost there. |
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“Rock n’ Roll”
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Four totally different characteristics
crash against each other and there-upon a huge and vehement but
constructive discussion begins (Rock n’ Roll). Each one
finds itself and it finally results in a peaceful solution out
of the problem. |
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Team USA, New York: Kids’ Choice “A Family Affair” |
In the wild, baby elephants are nurtured by
the whole family group. They are born with fewer survival instincts
than most animals, and rely on their elders to teach them what
they need to know. Caring for and shaping the next generation
is an important aspect of our sculpture and of our families. |
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“The Doryman”
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Plying his trade, a trade that
predates history, the Doryman works his weary way home. He rows
through an ocean that holds the life and livelyhood of many a
man, and the lost souls of countless more. |
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| Team USA, Breckenridge “Snowballs in a Block” |
The
first snow sculpture we ever made was a snowball, then we made
several and stacked them up into a snowman. The official snow
sculpture in Breckenridge always starts with a block. In this
sculpture, the team will keep the parameters of the block, but
will push the snow to its physical limits to show the transparency
of snow, play with its ability to transmit light, and reveal the
magic snowballs inside. |
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Team USA – Canon
City, Colorado:
“Fields of Dreams” |
The purity of a
parent’s love for their child and their hopes, dreams, wishes
and prayers; for their child to grow up, to live happily, to fill
the world with their love and laughter and to do well in life.
This piece is dedicated to all those who love their children more
than anything else and who would do anything for them. |
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Team Czech Republic:
“Suffering of Africa” |
Modern
weapons and old social thinking make it possible to kill people
en masse. That is why Africa needs schools more than food, which
invariably ends up in the hands of the military and provides money
for the purchase of new weapons. Schools are the messengers of
peace and are full of information about the possibilities of a
better life. |
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Team USA, Idaho:
“Hoofin’ It” |
Running
joyfully at the end of the workday, our horses are expressing
the free spirit that is the heart of the American West. |
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Team Mexico “Casa Del Sol” |
The Sun is a symbol of fullness
and the cosmic universal force… it is the full radiant house
of enegry and of light that fills all the spaces. This is transformed
into an evocation of poetics, is the force of the origin of life
and work, and transmits through human sensibility, the beautiful
aesthetics; to observe the forms, the movement and the forceful
whiteness of the snow. |
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Team USA, Wisconsin (1)
“In the Absence” |
Throughout
life we find ourselves in the absence of people, and blessings
that bring us joy. Absence holds us back, and pushes us to achieve. |
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Team USA, Wisconsin (2)
“Need Sum Lovin’ 2” |
Giraffes, in stature, the Family Abstract Bonds of Majestic nobility. |
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