It has being a long time to wait for this moment since my last year’s Snow and Ice Furniture in Madison at the end of January 2009.

This year, Milwaukee Art Museum invited me to do an installation at its front lawn facing Lake Michigan, at the end of January 2010 when it held its first ever Green Furniture Show and Green Fair for the city. I decided that this year's furniture should look more melty to convey a sense of global warming.

My worry started when all the snow on the lawn melted last weeks. The ice cover also disappeared from Lake Michigan. It was getting warmer and warmer. I thought the exhibition might be canceled, but did not give up, started to look for snow from surround areas and hope for some cold days. Chipstone Foundation helped to collect some icy snow from nearby corners, and luckily, a colder week was also on the corner.

On Dec 27th, Lake Michigan regained a thin ice cover. I threw a rock to make a hole and draw water with a bucket and a rope from a 12 feet high bank. Once the water and snow were mixed well, I shaped the slash around a slim tree branch to help the curved legs and stretchers stand. Cold wind started to help solidify the new structures. The chairs and table came from the lawn into the air gradually in the shadow of the white wings on the Museum building.

Dancing in this spot is very dangerous because the huge windows reflected sunlight to the lawn, because the weather is very unpredictable these days, because nowhere and no one can escape the global warming.

Personally, I love winter. It will be so sad if the winter become no longer cold. The installation will be on show Feb. 1st until it melts away (Hopefully Feb 15th).

I hope this would remind people of the project last year as well as the increasingly severe environmental issues. The dancing furniture may look like melting down. Maybe it forecast the last dance of the current industrial world, or of human civilization if we do not change the way we live.

Green Fair at the Milwaukee Art Museum:
http://www.mam.org/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=1385&year=2010&month=1