Scrap Book 10

This was an awesome icicle located on one of the lower branches of the eucalyptus tree standing in outside the Campus Center between the two arches.  Obviously, the icicles have since melted, but on Monday and Sunday virtually the whole tree was encased in ice.  It was quite a spectacle, and quite moving.  One might even say that it "took you away from here", for its creatively inspirational qualities.  If a man sculpted something that looked like this, perhaps even a statue based on this very formation, it might be called a great work of art.  However, this awesome formation of frozen particles was created by forces of the natural world, totally free of any direct interference by a human, except perhaps whoever planted that tree there.  If a work of art is the tangible manifestation of a creative force working uniquely through each individual human being, than an entity created by a purely natural force, such as the weather, cannot be considered art.