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Last Call – DemocracyICED
We make art for social change, installing temporary public sculptures to mark important historical events. Today, our democracy is melting.

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Setting up, see you at NOON!
October 15, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Last Call - DemocracyICED
October 15, 2025 on The National Mall D.C.
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Distant US Capitol building framed by melting ice sculpture in foreground. Child reaches up to touch enormous letter A carved in ice. Text box overlay: “The ice sculptures materially underscore the impact of political and social ideas - you think about loss and disappearance. What does that kind of change mean when you're looking at Democracy?”
October 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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- Judge halts shutdown layoffs—for now
- Virginia AG candidates will debate tonight
- Flying ferry to Be tested on Potomac

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Judge Halts Shutdown Layoffs—for Now; Virginia AG Candidates Will Debate Tonight; Flying Ferry to Be Tested on Potomac - Washingtonian
Good morning. Sunny with a high around 64 today—solid fleece vest weather. Cool and clear overnight, with a low around 41. The Washington Wizards will visit Detroit tonight in a preseason matchup. You...
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October 16, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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In the end, a C
C for “crisis”?
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In the dusk, a cracked and broken monument. The remains of ice sculpture DEMOCRACY in front of U.S. Capitol building.
October 16, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Did you see the Democracy ice sculpture melt in DC yesterday? Hear all about it from artists @bellvisuals.bsky.social and @nora-ligorano.bsky.social on Friday, Oct. 17 at 4 pm ET hosted by Randall Packer Register here: luma.com/8vyh58az
Bunker Fridays: DemocracyICED · Luma
Two days after LigoranoReese’s ice sculpture DEMOCRACY melts on the National Mall (October 15), Zakros InterArts convenes its next Bunker Fridays: an online…
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October 16, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Each generation must fight to make the promise of democracy real in their generation.

- Rev. William H. Lamar IV, pastor of Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church
Rev. William H. Lamar IV, pastor of Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church on The National Mall (Washington DC) at a podium in front of a large ice sculpture spelling out DEMOCRACY Text overlay: "Democracy has no children or grandchildren. Each and every generation must fight to make the promise of democracy real in their generation. I believe that most of us felt like the fights that our ancestors fought were over. But what we must understand - for the rest of our days - we can not allow ourselves to think that 'what we have won we can keep.' We can only keep it if we build the power to keep it."
October 15, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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What weighed 3,000 pounds at dawn’s early light in Washington and will virtually disappear by sundown? wapo.st/4nLtD6Q
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On the National Mall, ‘Democracy’ drips in daylight
Ben Cohen, of Ben & Jerry’s, helped bring a 3,000-pound ice sculpture to the capital as a warning that “democracy is melting away before our very eyes.”
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October 15, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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We’re unironically down to D.C.

Last Call: DemocracyICED on the National Mall in D.C. 10/15/2025
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A decayed ice sculpture, formerly DEMOCRACY, now a ghost of itself. The U.S. Capitol building with dark cloud cover in the background
October 15, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Thank you! So poignant and meaningful.
on the National Mall, with the US Capitol in the background, there’s an ice sculpture that spells out “democracy” but the letters are melting
October 15, 2025 at 9:10 PM
nora-ligorano.bsky.social
Each generation must fight to make the promise of democracy real in their generation.

- Rev. William H. Lamar IV, pastor of Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church
Rev. William H. Lamar IV, pastor of Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church on The National Mall (Washington DC) at a podium in front of a large ice sculpture spelling out DEMOCRACY Text overlay: "Democracy has no children or grandchildren. Each and every generation must fight to make the promise of democracy real in their generation. I believe that most of us felt like the fights that our ancestors fought were over. But what we must understand - for the rest of our days - we can not allow ourselves to think that 'what we have won we can keep.' We can only keep it if we build the power to keep it."
October 15, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Democracy has no children or grandchildren. Each and every generation must fight to make the promise of democracy real in their generation. (1/2)
- Rev. William H. Lamar IV
Man at podium speaks. Behind him is the U.S. Capitol building and DEMOCRACY spelled out in ice.
October 15, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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A 3,000-pound, 17-foot-long "DEMOCRACY" ice sculpture is melting away on the National Mall today, a statement from activists and artists on the weakened state of American democracy under the Trump administration.
www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...
A 3,000-Pound Ice Sculpture Of 1 Word Is Melting In Front Of The U.S. Capitol
“It's time for all of us to resist, speak up and save our democracy before it's too late,” artist Marshall Reese said of his 17-by-5-foot installation.
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October 15, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Contemplating America’s weakened democracy and the costs of its failure amid growing militarism and authoritarianism. You?
The cracks are showing.

Special thanks @yobencohen.bsky.social @upinarms-us.bsky.social
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DEMOCRACY ice sculpture, melting in front of the U.S. Capitol building. The top of a C is missing.
October 15, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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ICE arrested comedian Robby Roadsteamer for singing a parody of Rod Stewart’s “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” in a Jeffrey Epstein the Giraffe costume outside their facility.

He sings “If you hate brown people / and you are a Nazi” and ICE thugs grab him and drag him into detention. No violence—just speech.
October 15, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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“If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” -Brett Kavanaugh bsky.app/profile/orig...
originalsp.in Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · Oct 15
A musician, Oriana Korol, was peacefully playing clarinet with her protest band outside ICE facilities in Portland, OR.

When the band started playing “Ghostbusters,” ICE thugs suddenly poured outside, slammed her into the mud, arrested her and took her to a jail 9 miles away in Vancouver, WA.
Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents
‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said
www.independent.co.uk
October 15, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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I was born in D.C., my parents were federal workers. Today’s sculpture has an urgency we could never have foreseen in 2008 when we first put it out into the world…

We’re here on the National Mall, livestreaming all day, watching our democracy melt into a puddle.
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Artists Marshall Reese & Nora Ligorano unveil their temporary monument made of ice. DEMOCRACY spelled out, U.S. Capitol in the background.
October 15, 2025 at 4:33 PM
nora-ligorano.bsky.social
Last Call – DemocracyICED
We make art for social change, installing temporary public sculptures to mark important historical events. Today, our democracy is melting.

meltedaway.com
Special thanks @yobencohen.bsky.social @upinarms-us.bsky.social
Setting up, see you at NOON!
October 15, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Dawn’s early light…
The U.S. Capitol in early morning light, as seen from the National Mall
October 15, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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🚨Last Call: DemocracyICED on the National Mall in D.C. Weds noon
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In view of the U.S. Capitol, we’re raising a literal ton of ice in a one-word melting poem. The sculpture transforms the abstract concept of “democracy” into a visceral loss Live and livestreaming
Schematic of DEMOCRACY sculpture In a deep freezer, brushing ice chips off a large letter D, carved from ice
October 14, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Last Call - DemocracyICED
October 15, 2025 on The National Mall D.C.
MeltedAway.com

@yobencohen.bsky.social @upinarms-us.bsky.social
Distant US Capitol building framed by melting ice sculpture in foreground. Child reaches up to touch enormous letter A carved in ice. Text box overlay: “The ice sculptures materially underscore the impact of political and social ideas - you think about loss and disappearance. What does that kind of change mean when you're looking at Democracy?”
October 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM
nora-ligorano.bsky.social
What we like about these sculptures is that they are very popular in the best sense of the word, people love to touch them, but in the shape of a word, to see them meltdown and vanish, they take on a completely different meaning. -MR
nora-ligorano.bsky.social LigoranoReese @nora-ligorano.bsky.social · Oct 11
The temporary monuments of Melted Away are markers for the opening decades in the 21st century - DEMOCRACY broken, the ECONOMY ruined, the MIDDLE CLASS disappears, THE FUTURE tenuous, THE AMERICAN DREAM vanishes, TRUTH an open question. meltedaway.com/video
enormous ice sculpture, letters spell out DEMOCRACY
October 11, 2025 at 8:37 PM
nora-ligorano.bsky.social
The temporary monuments of Melted Away are markers for the opening decades in the 21st century - DEMOCRACY broken, the ECONOMY ruined, the MIDDLE CLASS disappears, THE FUTURE tenuous, THE AMERICAN DREAM vanishes, TRUTH an open question. meltedaway.com/video
enormous ice sculpture, letters spell out DEMOCRACY
October 11, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Temporary Monuments meltedaway.com/video/
Video – Melted Away
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October 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Partnering with @upinarms-us.bsky.social sounding the alarm about what’s happening to our country before our very eyes
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Four square pix of ice sculpture spelling out DEMOCRACY, progressively melting away
October 9, 2025 at 10:34 PM
nora-ligorano.bsky.social
🚨 October 15, 2025 on The National Mall in D.C. *Last Call - DemocracyICED* our latest temporary monument made of ice, melting away.

Since 2008, we've installed seven ice sculptures in cities across the U.S.
Economy, Middle Class, The Future, The American Dream and Truth, all melted away.
October 9, 2025 at 9:24 PM