Why do people create art? For this particular media, it is created for a purpose, and the ways in which ice carvings could be of use as a resource in daily activity got around the world.. The history of ice carvings is not clear, but historians do know that the actual practice of creating such sculptures has been around for quite a while. The places it has been tracked down to be to modern day Alaska, Canada, and Greenland. The people who lived there used the already available ice and snow to build houses for shelter which is commonly known today as igloos. An ice sculpture and author by the name of Joseph Amendola explains the benefits of this work of art in his novel “Ice Carving made Easy.” The records of the book date back to 600 BC, detailing
