Cycle of life.....

Work in progress of ice form February 2017

Through the making of my current work of teardrop ice forms it has struck me how in their making they are closely associated to the process of reproduction; the cycle of life. In the creation of these forms there is the bringing together of materials in a conceptual way; the insertion of water and matter into a sack like receptacle that ultimately incubates its contents during the freezing process. When released from the freezing environment the form is cut open (see pic above) to reveal the frozen teardrop inside. This revealing has a real birth like quality, the emergence of an entity from within the sack. From the moment the ice form is released it begins to deteriorate it melts. The ice changes to water and its contents are left the way they were when they were inserted into the sack