Sculptures focus on melting iceberg
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March 21, 2010, Sunday
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A DUTCH artist arranged two large sculptures on an iceberg in Greenland on Friday to raise awareness about climate change and people will be able to monitor it on the Internet as the ice melts.
Ap Verheggen, a 45-year-old artist from The Hague, said he had built the swirling metal sculptures, which represent a dog sled, to highlight the impact of a warmer climate on the Inuit people, who struggle to move around on thinning ice.
"The sea doesn't freeze. People can't trust nature anymore," Verheggen said, before the 5-meter sculptures were lifted by helicopter onto the iceberg.
"As an artist, I see it as a sort of mission to make people aware of what's happening over here."
In Uummannaq, an Inuit village of fishers and hunters on an island in northwest Greenland, the sea did not freeze enough this winter to form the thick ice needed for hunters to travel around the fjord on dog sleds.
Meanwhile, the thin ice that did form on the sea locked their boats in the harbor, restricting their movements.
Ap Verheggen, a 45-year-old artist from The Hague, said he had built the swirling metal sculptures, which represent a dog sled, to highlight the impact of a warmer climate on the Inuit people, who struggle to move around on thinning ice.
"The sea doesn't freeze. People can't trust nature anymore," Verheggen said, before the 5-meter sculptures were lifted by helicopter onto the iceberg.
"As an artist, I see it as a sort of mission to make people aware of what's happening over here."
In Uummannaq, an Inuit village of fishers and hunters on an island in northwest Greenland, the sea did not freeze enough this winter to form the thick ice needed for hunters to travel around the fjord on dog sleds.
Meanwhile, the thin ice that did form on the sea locked their boats in the harbor, restricting their movements.
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