Jan 072014
Only a couple of days ago, I recall setting off down Piney Woods Church Road, from its intersection with Rico Road, and finding deep muddy ruts along the road edge. I remember being upset by this disfigurement of my daily journey. Yet, passing by that same spot today, I discovered the beautiful, intriguing patterns of ice bubbles frozen into those very ruts. What before was unsightly has now been rendered attractive and photo-worthy. The result is this “ice mural”, an image which I can imagine painted into the side of a building in some city somewhere. The abstractions suggest a landscape with figures — but I will leave interpretations to readers. What do you see in this image?
In the middle I see a woman lying down. The form to the left could be a baby that was just born. To the right of the woman could be the image of a man with his head in his hands. The circle in the middle of the woman is empty. Maybe the baby was still born as demonstrated by the empty stomach and that the image of the baby is placed away from the mother.
Elizabeth,
Thank you so much for sharing your impressions of this image with us.
Clifford