Like Ice in the Sunshine focuses on the happy simplicity of the iconic Australian Paddle Pops to dwell on ephemeral experiences and to embody the frailty of changing identities.

Photographed on monochrome colourful backgrounds, ice melts under the hot Australian sun and is captured by the camera, leading to childlike summer metaphors. Objects that trigger memory and stir a longing for things that have past, their changing form animated by the sun and captured in a frozen sliver of time. Rosenbauer has drawn upon her personal views of the self, fleeting moments and checkered memories.

The natural sun is left to shape a mix of perennially loved paddle pops, ice becomes liquid, pooling around the melting whole. Colors merge, others separate, some creep away from their host. Flaking, sloughing, gently seeping – each and every body tells a different tale.

As bold, quintessentially summertime images they nevertheless capture a melancholy reality: bitter or sweet, all memories eventually melt into the flow of life.