In the waning days of Empire, on May Day 2018, Industry of the Ordinary place one hundred ice stars on the granite tiles of Daley Plaza in Chicago. There, serenaded by a requiem for cello, improvised by Katinka Kleijn, the ice stars slowly melt away in the warm air of a spring day.
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Video by Cass Davis, photography by Cass Davis and Rebecca Memoli Special thanks to the Hyde Park Arts Center and Columbia College Chicago
for their support of this project.
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