During this, our time of Covid, I decided to play around with time lapse photography. I wanted to work with materials that were easily at hand (I grow a lot of plants) and something that could be soothing to watch. A friend of mine used to make short beautiful peaceful looking videos that he lovingly called “mental gingers”, the mental equivalent of the pallet cleanser of ginger that accompanies your sushi.
The looped video turns the ice into a living thing, breathing around the plant material it would normally be helping the earth to degrade and digest.