Soft Ices is an arts project by the artist Mark Storer and composer Jules Maxwell.
Mark and Jules have been travelling around Jaywick in an ice cream van, which has been given a new lease of life as a recording studio, persuading local people to literally ‘sing for their supper’.
From the Jaywick Martello Tower one hundred red ribbons, held by children, flutter from the rooftop to the ground, where they are pegged down.
The Martello Tower is like a giant Maypole, around its base Carolina the ice cream van circles around and around, in a clockwise direction.
This magical opening of the Tower on 17 September 2005 was the culmination of a year-long art project, Soft Ices.