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Ice Crystals
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Tens of millions drip by drip building this magnificent sculpture hung from roof eave, reaching toward snow covered ground. For an entire week I have watched an uncanny artist add on and subtract from this icicle, following immutable February traditions of snow, sun, melt, drip, freeze, wind, day, night, gravity, repeat and repeat. All this meshing in unrehearsed improvisation No one can tell the final shape this gleaming work will take – except we know at some serendipitous moment, under the weight of its own beauty, it will break away from my roof-line, splinter into a splendoring glitter of shards – radiant in its scatter across silver field of crusted snow |