The 100 Day Project #30

The Shape of Water

Diamond Beach, Iceland, 2025

The 100 Day Project, Day 30

This tiny fragment of ice came from a glacier.

A small, translucent remnant, washed ashore on the black sand beach at Breiðamerkursandur — known as Diamond Beach — in southeast Iceland. The Jökulsárlón glacier lagoon calves its ice into the sea, and the ocean returns these last fragments to the shore, polished and luminous, like precious stones.

I found this remnant resting amongst the smooth stones shaping the melting of the ice. Glimmering amongst textures that look crafted by artisans.

There is a particular kind of beauty in the last phase of a thing. Not despite its diminishment, but because of it.

We move through phases too. The large and forceful ones. The slow and grinding ones. The ones where we feel vast and the ones where we feel small. Each phase has its own beauty, its own particular gift. The trick, I think, is learning to cherish them all — not only the ones where we feel powerful and whole, but the quiet, diminished ones too. The ones where we are small enough to catch the light in a new way.

Time shapes everything it touches. What it leaves behind is nearly always the most interesting part.

About the 100 Day Project: A global creative challenge where thousands of artists share a piece of their practice every single day for 100 days. I'm joining creatives around the world, and I'm excited to bring you along. Each day I'll be sharing one of my photos — some recent, some old, and some from my current project — along with the story behind it: where I was, who I was with, and why I love it.