The polar nights of northernmost Finland last about 60 days. The long darkness shifts into longer and brighter days as the sun begins crawling up from behind the horizon. Spring makes its way back in blinding fashion, its strong rays of light reflecting off the frozen landscape, igniting a dance between the daylight that melts snow into tiny droplets and freezing nights that stop those drops in their tracks. Drop by drop, icicles gradually form, their ever-changing size revealed gloriously by each passing dawn.For me, those icicles represent the beauty of early spring and provided inspiration for the drop shelf. The support piece of the shelf imitates an icicle, frozen in place. Like a row of icicles hanging from a tree branch there are different sizes of supports for the shelves.