The ephemeral scupltures made up by medical tubes, cloths, latex mem- branes and ice offer a thought on the transience and the fragility of every life form and on the impossibility for mankind to preserve forever what nature indiscriminately brings to destruction. Caught by the photo- graphic lense, the ice micro-scupltures, wrapped up in delicate protecti- ve shells, are doomed to disappear forever; their life expectancy is less than 120 minutes, just the time for a shoot.