Four score and seven years ago, well actually a lot less than that was when an artistically inclined man in New York became dedicated to the proposition of sculpting snow.
Michelangelo was 26 when he was asked to sculpt a colossal statue of the biblical hero David, to be placed on the roof of the Cathedral in Florence, 80 metres above street level.
What gives them their shape is the fact that fairly nearby there are some very, very massive, very luminous, very hot stars that are dumping out huge amounts of ultraviolet radiation. And it's sculpting the surroundings.
It mimics different parts of human emotion or the strength of someone underneath, their exterior, it also shows part of my process of building an Armature, which would be the brick and then laying over clay to sculpt a piece.
The style of the statues suggests they were sculpted in the late Republican period, perhaps a hundred years before Pompeii was buried under volcanic ash from the 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
But the amount of time that it takes to make something like this is, and cost even is far superior than it would be to sculpting it, molding it, casting it.