This drawing explores the phase change of water from liquid to ice, at a molecular scale.
Liquid water is partially ordered, where hydrogen bonds are constantly being formed and breaking up. Through the phase change, the crystallisation, the molecules assemble into a rigid hexagonal lattice, which is the ice structure. Air spaces are formed within the lattice structure. Interesting: ice is considered a mineral.
The hexagonal lattice structure resembles a container of sorts, a metaphor which parallels the use of ice as a medium to store goods, to transmit goods or to suspend time, suspend the deterioration of resources. The suspension is released through the phase change back to liquid water.
Ice can store information about the past, releasing it upon arrival through a phase change.
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