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| Day 117 icy puddle |
Today starts off beautifully with a clear, sunny sky. David and I walk the doggies all the way to the river, a round trip of several miles. Along the way I spy an icy puddle where the surface cracks resemble the outline of smiling lips. Voila, the cell phone captures the image that I now share with you. It felt like the ground smiled at me when I saw this.
Nearly all the shapes created by the puddles’ icy cracks contained rounded corners. And you thought ice broke with sharp, jagged lines, correct? Perhaps it is because this ice isn’t completely broken in order to create these cracks? Or the fact that puddles are not angular in shape regulates the shape of patterns created within them? Some law of physics must guide these patterns contained within icy puddles. And if you step on the ice to shatter it, yes, it does then break into jagged, sharp lines.
As an artist I’m more interested in the pattern itself and less why it occurs. Patterns in nature do inspire me, as do patterns you find in the city too. What inspires you visually? Color? Size? Shape? Movement?
I hope you find a moment of visual inspiration today :)
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