Dawn Ng is a Singaporean artist whose practice deals with time, memory, and the ephemeral. For Avalanche, she crafted pigmented blocks of ice, then filmed them melting away. She shot them against a blank background, offering no sense of scale—they could be tiny or massive.

Using time lapse, she compressed hours of real time into minutes of screen time. But, even sped up, the effect remains meditative. Manipulating our sense of space and time, Ng fast tracks glacial decay while evoking calming waterfalls and collapsing ice shelves. Portraying the fluidity of time as a ‘riot of colors’ that swell and ebb, forming rivers and pools, Ng turns entropy into eye candy.