Thunder Mountain students create portraits<\/a>]<\/ins><\/p>\nImboden said she has made similar large sculptures — each bear was close to life-size — in past years, but the polar bears are the first ones she has made this winter.<\/p>\n
She hauled sled fulls of snow from the edge of the driveway to where she would need it for her sculptures.<\/p>\n
As of 2 p.m. Thursday, Imboden had finished one bear that peered over its shoulder with rock eyes and a woodchip nose while its creator was smoothing out a rough pile of snow that would become a bear leaning forward on its forelegs.<\/p>\n
There were also some unshaped snow piles behind the first bear, and Imboden said she wasn’t yet sure what they would become.<\/p>\n
The first bear, Imboden said, took about two or three hours to create.<\/p>\n
“When I started, it wasn’t good packing snow at all, but I said, ‘I’ll put energy in and it’ll stick,” she said.<\/p>\n
By the time she moved on to the second bear, afternoon rain and warmer weather meant the snow was wetter and more cohesive. <\/p>\n
“This one is solid,” Imboden said while working on its face with a square tool.<\/p>\n
She anticipated it would be able to support the weight of a child playing on it.<\/p>\n
“I should build it on a playground next time,” Imboden said.<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Contact arts and culture reporter Ben Hohenstatt at (907)523-2243 or bhohenstatt@juneauempire.com.<\/b><\/p>\n
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