I was hoping the title The Marvelous Views of Ice Pirates and Astronauts would be literal, and it totally is. There’s something Rushmore about Chad Wentzel’s show of completely lovable new drawings at Washington Ensemble Theatre. They’re boyish and slightly naively drawn, and they’re framed in white porthole frames, as if capturing the scenery as it goes by during an odyssey through sparkling glaciers and on the moon. The titles are captions written by someone under a wondrous spell: “If Only Every Day Could Be This Good,” “I Wish Mom Could See This,” “I’m Glad It’s Warm in My Ship.” One glacier has pointy ears, like a gnarly, eyeless monster from a child’s nightmare. It’s called “Isn’t It Beautiful.”

There aren’t any images of them available for me to show here, otherwise I would. Try to imagine them: Wentzel made them on smooth white vellum. He outlined the snowy bluffs and distant planets and rivers of icebergs in pencil and then painted on light opalescent shadows. Then, he brushed salt water on them, which, dried, gives the magical look of splintered ice. Each scene has this feeling of snowblindness, of the lightheaded delirium of white on white on white.

According to WET curator Ady Kenady Walker, Wentzel is doing a bigger solo show in May at Crawl Space called “Everything I’ve Always Wanted at the Same Time.” I can’t wait to see it. For now, I’m focusing on resisting buying “I Wish Mom Could See This” for my mom.