In Fire & Ice in NY, myth, climate prophecy and urban memory collide in a monumental marine vision of the future. A colossal statue of Marilyn Monroe rises where the Statue of Liberty once stood, no longer a symbol of glamour but a luminous torchbearer at the edge of a fractured civilization. Her phosphorescent flame cuts through a frozen seascape where an icebreaker moves like a blade through time, navigating the waters of a world transformed by climate upheaval. At the base of the monument, a mountain appears violently split, as if the Earth itself had cracked under pressure. The artist imagined this rupture after warning that the weakening of the Gulf Stream could radically alter the balance of the planet’s climate systems. Behind the statue, the skyline has almost vanished: only one final skyscraper rises where the Twin Towers once stood, a solitary architectural survivor reflecting shards of light from high-reflectance mica embedded in the paint. The work belongs to the artist’s