Jackson looked out of the airplane, he noticed the ice and snow covering some of the area lakes, one of them caught his eye. He noticed writing first, where someone swept snow off the lake's ice, forming a word: "Embrace." He scoffed realizing the word was the title of a huge "painting" of snow on ice. Jaded by years as a connoisseur, he tried to turn away, but he couldn't. As the plane continued on, he craned his neck to look just a bit more.
Jackson picked up his luggage unable, to erase the image from his mind. The "painting" was two figures melting into an embrace. The perfection in the curves, the arch of a back, and the strength in the hands seared themselves into Jackson's mind.
He swerved his car off the main highway searching for the lake. Sliding over ice for hours, he finally topped a hill and saw the lake.
He spotted a woman walking a snow blower off the lake. He stepped out of the car and shouted, "Please, I need to talk to you."
The woman looked at him.
"'Embrace,' it's the most beautiful thing I have seen."
The woman smiled and started walking.
"Wait, it's art, you'll be famous."
The woman shrugged her shoulders as wind whistled, shouting "I doubt it. Look it's cold out here, would you like some coffee?"
"I'd love it," he answered following her into the house.
Stepping inside, Jackson saw sketches and photographs distributed around the room. Initially they all appeared to be abstract images, but as he looked closer he found that they were all erotic images of either people engaged in some sex act or of sexual organs observed from odd angles in different types of light. Before Jackson could comment, the woman spoke.
"I've been working with a lot of sexual images, including the "Embrace" which you saw outside on the lake."
"They are interesting images," Jackson replied.
"Well, they disturb a lot of people so I've been working on some performance type of art, something that's not so permanent. That way I can display the art, but before the police arrive it is gone."
Jackson chuckled.