Art Description

Photography : Photo, Color, Digital, ice, Ink on Other.

This is the first photography from Abstraction by Ice series.



Actual medium for this work was water/ice and ink color.



This photo is the result of documentation of the process of creating an abstraction of colors in ice. The original motif is long gone as the ice melted during the photography session.



Original photography is encased in a black frame LED panel. Light from LED panel recreates a frozen moment from flash light that pierced through the ice during the documentation process. Only this time, ice will stay just the way I wanted and will not melt over time. The original is currently not for sale.



In the preparation process, I poured tap water in plastic containers and froze it in a few steps while destroying and coloring layers every time and adding more water, more color layers to the previously frozen ice block. The result can only be seen by flashing light through the ice. Once the ice is out of the freezer in room temperature, the ice starts melting as colors start mixing quickly. By submerging ice in hot water, ice cracks and changes it's structure. Adding color to the ice can only affect the exterior, not all the layers. But still, small holes and cracks will absorb some of the colors that will be mixed by surrounded melted color.



This mostly unpredictable process is my way of trying to control the color that is frozen inside of the ice. As an artist, I try to control part of the process but end up as documentarist whos merely duty is to set up an experiment and wait to see what is going to happen with the color.



Every time, I start with an idea but end up submitting to unpredictable natural material. Every work deepens my relationship with the material I work with. I try to understand it, control it. Every session with a block of ice takes about 4-6 hours until I am left with just dirty cold water. No matter the size, temperature or color used, every ice block ends up the same. What you see in front of you is just a fragment of my experience documenting the process.