Different Natures
Design Rob Harding & Timsam Harding | ICEHOTEL 32 | Available December 2021 - April 2022
Design Rob Harding & Timsam Harding | ICEHOTEL 32 | Available December 2021 - April 2022
"What happens to us is irrelevant to the world's geology, but what happens to the worlds geology is not irrellevant to us. We must reconcile ourselves to the stones. Not the stones to us"
- Hugh MacDiarmid, Excerpt from On a Raised Beach, 1934.
Nature adapts and evolves, all in different ways, as do we. Different situations call for different modifications and transformations. Water shapes stone in the same way a water can become stone. Different Natures is a room that looks to immerse those who visit is in the experience of nature, by observing big ice boulders. Carved water shapes, to resemble the solid mass that holds the planet together, and that like the ice, it might one day melt away. In Different Natures we want to observe the origin, the contrast of shapes making out praise to the water stone, shaping it on its way back to its liquid state.
Rob Harding and Timsam Harding are a father and son team that have been working together for many years. They are both artists, living and working in Spain. Timsam is based in Madrid and Rob, together with his artist wife, are based in the Axargia Hills near Malaga.
Rob and Timsam have worked with us at ICEHOTEL several times over the past 15 years.