I think the worst honor one could give to a person is to commission an ice sculpture of them.

What a horrible thing that would be! The person would have to model in a cold place right? How long does it take to make an ice sculpture anyway? Imagine this scenario:

"Hey! For being such a great person, I've commissioned an ice sculpture in your image."

"Um, ok. When can I see it?"

"Well, you have to model for it on Tuesday. It'll take about 3 hours and you have to stand in a room that's freezing, but it'll be great!"

"Can you just take me to lunch or something?"

In the end, there'd be a great big beautiful ice sculpture of this honorable person. This person would get to admire it for a while. Then, the frozen doppelganger melts away unless that person keep it somewhere cold.

"Here's your ice sculpture! Um, I hope you have a walk-in freezer."

Or, worse:

"We're going to put your ice sculpture in an avant-garde art museum. It'll melt on the floor and liberal arts student will write their thesis on how amazing that is."

Art & beauty are ephemeral, but ice sculpture takes that to a whole new level. You can't create it in the comfort of your own home. You can't do it comfortably! I'm sure an ice sculptor looks as though he or she is going to have a snowball fight when working. Instead of a fun snowball fight, they're carving ice.

I just thought of one positive side of ice sculpting. If I were an ice sculptor, I'd save the ice shavings and make snowcones. I'd model for an ice sculptor if I got at least five snowcones in the process.

I guess this wouldn't be the worst honor then. That is if you get the snowcones. Now a shit sculpture, that cannot have any redeeming qualities.