Beneath a glacier in the Transantarctic Mountains some 12 million years ago, the downhill flow of a
massive, growing reservoir of meltwater was restrained by
walls of
ice.
Stacked here like blocks of
ice or stones, they conjure all manner of contradictory associations:
walls, igloos, Donald Judd boxes, and more unlikely, Anselm Kiefer's
massive acrylic, oil, shellac, and sand painting of a serpentine structure The Fertile Crescent (2009).