Highlighting the beginning of Montreal’s 375th anniversary Hivernales festivities, Dale Cools is a winter installation that invites the public to live nordicity by inhabiting a landscape fragment of trees covered in ice. Visitors are plummeted into a sensorial experience as they navigate through the dense forest, smelling the distinctive odor of the trees, and hearing the crackling of the ice. The installation offers a sensitive pause in the choatic urban environment of Old Montreal; the juxtaposition of the two opposing environments reminds visitors of the inherent fragility of nordic landscapes.