December 13 2005

Text By Catherine Jamieson

When I was a young girl I watched a teacher use a thin stream of water, a plate of frozen glass and an air hose to create a work of art. Every way she held it up to the light, its aspect was changed and new patterns of color emerged. Ice, she told us, crystallizes in hexagonal geometries, which is why snowflakes have six sides and sparkle in the light. Rudimentary science may tell me that light refracting through these hexagonal entities creates the beauty that so enchants me but it was that art teacher who really taught me about snowflakes and ice.

Captured masterfully in a medium that is itself a blending of science and art, this photograph is a tribute to the natural world where art is born and not made; where science IS art.