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Ice furrows of the Rio Tunél glacier

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Glaciar Río Tunél

What makes glaciers so magical is how quickly they change. Water channels through the dense ice, melting out fissures with the heat of the sun. The insides turn into an ever-changing labyrinth of tunnels and chutes, cast in a deep blue of dense ice.

Snow pack freezes over, melts, and condenses. Water pours into channels deep under the mass. Sediments spill out the sides and into outflow. Layers collapsed by time are eroded to the surface, and the valley floor is scraped into a deep ravine. The glacier is one moving body of immense pressure, rippling with currents of change.

Location
P007-Rio-tunel
Coordinates
-49.3918533, -73.0813837
Date
October 31, 2026
Medium
watercolor on paper
Size
7 × 10 in