Nature earns her stripes

Icebergs can prove the latest gift from nature to arouse artistic passions. These titanic sinking formations can now earn their stripes in this imaginative world – literally. First captured by Norwegian sailor Oyvind Tangen miles north of the Antarctic, striped icebergs are as abstract as a child’s painting, precise as Frank Lloyd Wright buildings, as innovative and original as a modern artist, and timeless as Sinatra.

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A perfect flash of translucent blue is captured in one berg while an assortment of browns and greens wrap around another. Icebergs can be sharp and ruthless in appearance or curved and supple. The formation of stripes occurs when deep seawater interacts with the freshwater that makes up icebergs. Depending on organic material found in seawater and temperatures, various colours will be displayed and dazzle the observer.

The question now: will these images influence future art? Will banded icebergs become the inspiration for emerging fashion, a catalyst for an architecture novelty, or as a muse for any inventive brilliance? Regardless, the possibilities in art become endless when one can draw inspiration from the organic magnificence of nature.