In this black & white photograph I saw the juxtaposition of two polarizing forces: the freezing ice against the warmth of the sun. I looked at the photograph… asked myself “what do I feel?”… Wrote it down, looked again, in a knee jerk, repetitive process trying to capture and translate the elemental layers of ice, air and fire. I wanted to sonically represent the chill, to express what it might feel like to be a droplet of water freezing to that pane of glass. It would sound like ascreech on a noteless violin I thought. Before the melody arrived, came the lyric “Ice on the sun” and with it a narrative in which I played two parts: that of a strong, heroic woman and an exhausted nearly extinguished man. Together these characters bear whiteness to this pane of glass and to this seemingly endless cold, dark night. But ahead, in the depth of the frozen blackness is the dawn, a star of hope that will guide them. No amount of ice can extinguish their love. I wanted the song to convey the threat of probable demise and the hopefulness of overcoming a seemingly desperate situation. The song is short and brief but compact, like it’s own little star, waiting to explode.