Melting Ice is a collection of vases that represent the beauty of impermanence by capturing the impact of small temperature changes on the melting process of an ice-cube. The form of each vase is generated by layered photographs taken every five minutes of the shrinking silhouette of the melting ice-cube, and the expanding silhouette of the resulting water puddle. Stacked chronologically, these shapes are finally covered in a virtual solid skin. The entire melting process has been abstracted / defamiliarized to reveal a time-based object.
By concentrating the viewer’s attention on the nuance of a simple phenomenon (like an ice-cube melting), this work is intended to magnify people’s sensory perception and awareness of the subtle changes in their everyday surroundings, and encourage them to be in the present—live in the moment.
