Once released onto the mountain, liquid from a cooling system 120 metres inside the Svalbard Global Seed Vault freezes. Throughout this slow process, it is influenced by the Arctic wind across the mountain, which pushes the forming ice in one direction and changes how the layers settle. As the liquid solidifies, the ground and stones become covered by glacial paced crystalline growth, accumulating layer by layer. Each photograph presents a single stone at a different stage. In the early images, ice clings to the upper surface and settles in cracks and around the base. As the freezing continues, the ice thickens into a continuous shell, sealing the stone's surface and masking its colour and contours. In the final stages, the stone reads as a dark mass beneath a milky layer of ice, with small trapped bubbles and fractures recording the conditions of formation. Two of the stones have been completely covered and are almost invisible shadows beneath the ice.