Dutch artist Ap Verheggen, in collaboration with the World Wildlife Fund, recently launched a unique art, installation, and environmental awareness project. Verheggen created a massive steel sculpture depicting an Inuit driving his dogsled team with a traditional whip and set it out on one of the icebergs off the coast of Western Greenland’s Uummannaq Island. As the iceberg’s melt, the sculpture will drift out to sea and sink. Then, it will either be retrieved, if possible, or it will biodegrade. The idea is to call attention to cultural impact global warming is having on a community that depends on being able to hunt and fish on the ice every year. This year, they could do neither, as the ice never came. You can track the sculpture’s journey via a GPS device at the cool(E)motion website.
Via NECN.
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