When I was 11, my piano teacher broke her block of raw amethyst and gave a portion to me -- I was her protege and best student, a "chip off the old block."
I was working in Apophysis 2.09 one day on the often creates glass and crystal shapes for me, and this actually occurred in more of a pink topaz kind of situation ...
... but the shape was closer to that amethyst block I remembered, so I found the correct color scheme and, the pic at the top is history.
In loving memory of Linda Anne Kotcher (1938-2014), the piano teacher and all-around artist who started me on my way to being an all-around artist ... here I work and do well on Hive because I indeed am a solid gem off Ms. Kotcher's gem-studded block.
Beautiful piece of art. Looks like an ice block from my youth.
Thank you ... it could have been ice too ... Apophysis 2.09 will make a number of shapes between LINEAR and SINUSOIDAL that are glassy or crystalline, and if I had thought about a blue-white palette, I suppose it could have been an iceberg ...