Orchid Angel from Light Paintings Series. by Cat Vibert. (Not yet available for purchase). Light paintings are distorted photographs of objects shot using a strong but natural light source such as fire or candle, and then using the palette available from the image to paint out the images I see in the distortions.
Becoming the Ice Queen
She watches,
Shawl wrapped on cold shoulders,
Eves that once carried life
Remains of a nest
From some warmer season
Reminding her of days
Of freedom and wings
Of unabashed laughter
And holy connections
All gone now,
Hidden in the other realm
Banished, as pasts are,
From anything but thought.
She watches,
Stalactites drip, lengthen, curl
Daggers forming,
She plays with her breath
Exhaling warmth onto ice thoughts
As they slowly drip and freeze
A spiral Fibonacci perfection
The perfect cleaver
(For what? Thoughts?)
The temperature drops
Like fading laughter.
She watches,
Breathing,
Arms open
As if in some ritual
(Embrace the pain
Embrace the pain
Embrace the pain)
Her thoughts,
Fibonacci thoughts
Dripping down in spirals of ice.
She watches,
Heaving,
As a dagger breaks off
From the eves of past hope
Impaling her chest
Straight through her heart
The ice blade freezing rivers.
Once blood tsunamis
Pumped from the gates,
Now this heart,
This broken heart of ice
Breaks into pieces
And falls away.
She watches,
She breaks,
She steps on all that is holy,
No longer does she bleed.
©2010 Catherine Vibert ( PS. No, I have no intention of becoming the ice queen, thank you! 
I’m just really cold right now so it felt appropriate.)
