April 30, 2020
Ice, 2020
April 30, 2020
A month into the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, I started thinking about how things might look after it ended. While I had legitimate concerns about the near future, I saw a glimmer of hope in the science that showed a much cleaner atmosphere. The closing of the ozone hole in Antartica and other changes in the environment were encouraging evidence to me that reduced fossil fuel use does have positive effects. Those thoughts quickly evaporated with the negative stories that prevailed in the media. A morning in our garden spurred some creative thoughts about how I felt about it all, which culminated in a series of still life photos.
Ice is a micro look at water in its solid form. Slowly melting and releasing thousand of trapped air bubbles. Constantly changing, splitting into pieces and colliding with itself, creating unpredictable abstract shapes. While only a few inches across, these pieces of ice melt and reshape themselves in response to time, temperature and motion, similar to the sea ice in our polar regions.