Ephemerality is an aesthetic that is perfectly expressed in ice.  Ice is a tentative, transitory material.  Ice disappears.  In this installation, I have juxtaposed this natural material and a human-made material (a common plastic water bottle).  I am looking at the interplay between the human-made environment and the natural environment.  I have set into motion a process (melting) that will unfold gradually over time. None of us will see the see the whole process.  I, the presumed artist, hereby abdicate control.  The weather is the artist; forces and laws of which I have little concrete understanding are the artists.   Each weekend, I will place new and different materials on these storage shelves and set in motion yet another cycle of transformation.