Description

Woman Looking at Black Ice

 

In this art piece a woman is portrayed.  She admires the black ice through the cleft of her breasts.  The solid thick ice has assumed the rounded shapes of a woman’s breasts.  The sheets of black ice is seen in contrast to the white ice that dominate the image.

The cold water takes on a variety of formations and textures in both liquid and solid form. In addition a variety of crystallised forms are present.  In the breasts the appearance is likely due to formations of air bubbles caught in the snow and ice of this beautiful creation of nature.  One just has to look at the microcosms of the backyard and you will find little pieces of heaven and the miraculous earth sch as this one.

Ice crystals are solid ice.  The shapes that are formed include columns, needles, plates and dendrites.

On the day I photographed the image, the conditions were ripe. A  “bad” snowstorm in February 2016 with 8-12 inches of snow, was followed by a Valentines day of zero degrees Fahrenheit, and then followed a day later by a morning with temperatures reaching 40 degrees Fahrenheit.  Ice ponds with transparent and often cracked thin ice could be found all over the park  As I looked more closely at these ice ponds with my macro lens – my breath was taken away by the geometric forms of nature.

Just a click of the camera and a moment of time in nature, likely never to surface again, was captured.

Related categories:  forces, shape, units to unity, time, bonds and connections, forces, water theme