i first heard of The Last Icebergs driving home late from the hospital where i work on NPR (5.3.11). An interview with Camille Seaman, i had to pullover as to not miss anything she was saying….
“I am not trying to humanize these icebergs. But when I look at them, I see…I see metaphors for ourselves as humanity. They’re so complicated; there is so much to us. We are constantly changing and shifting. And you know each iceberg is a unique individual. Each one responds to its environment and its experiences in its own way. No two are alike, and that sounds very much like us as humans….In these icebergs is a very beautiful poetic thing. They spend so long traveling as a glacier or an ice shelf, and then they broke off and became something else. Their time on the glacier can be many many tens of thousands of years. But they’re life as an iceberg is very short, very brief. And there is something beautiful and sad in that.” (http://thestory.org/archive/The_Story_REV5211.mp3/view) (http://www.camilleseaman.com/Artist.asp?ArtistID=3258&Akey=WX679BJN)
