I call my "ice actions", consisting in placing objects in principal downtown squares, the Monuments of Time. I find this title appropriately noble, considering in whose honor they are erected. In each case, I seek an adequate form to celebrate time as well as what is happening at the cross-roads of the physical world and magical sensibility. By removing time from its context and enclosing it in a plastic form, I gain an opportunity to visualize the invisible. Any attempt undertaken to stop time is bound to fail but for a time being I succeed in producing an illusion of independence. The reality I create is also subject to continuous changes. My monuments float in time, inscribed in the shorter or longer duration of their own existence. Time co-ordinates the processes taking place inside them and is simultaneously defined by these processes. Time could not be perceived if not for those changes. The unrelenting pressure exerted by stone blocks and the resistance offered by the ice symbolize human fight against time. Man refuses to passively participate in the course of events by making a decision to act. He establishes the relation with the past and creates the future. He sets his self-awareness against inertia and the forces of destruction.

Each of my ice monuments is designed to cause a short-circuit in the stream of events. Ephemeral forms emanate some condensed energy and produce an almost hypnotic experience of having actually observed time: they create a spectacle leaving a scar on the everyday routine. Mystery and insight gain priority over the rational explanation of physical phenomena. Monuments of time celebrate the transition and however short-lived themselves, in memory they last immortal.