Finaliste

The “Frost On My Windows” project asks viewers to ponder the question, “Can Nature create art?”

I have spent nine-and-a-half winters capturing images of natural exterior light refracting through ice crystals that grow on my old farmhouse windows. The frost grows when warm moist air escapes the house at night and comes in contact with the frigid outer window glass. Window frost crystals are only the tiniest fraction of an inch thick, yet their varied crystalline structures profoundly affect the passage of light, producing strikingly colorful compositions with three-dimensional depth effects.

I capture the images from inside my darkened rooms. And then, with the new day, Nature’s ephemeral artwork melts and vanishes in the sun, only to regrow again in different compositions on the next cold night.

Although color is an important part of this project, often the light coming into my house on overcast days is without much color and even none at all, which lends itself to monochrome rendition and shapes and compositions take center stage.