Environmental - Animal Welfare, natural disasters, global warming, human impact on nature.
Animal welfare - tigers, polar bears, northern white rhino.
The polar bears plight really appeals to me, probably because of 4Ocean supporting Polar Bears International this month, several spam emails proudly proclaiming this.
https://polarbearsinternational.org/polar-bears/habitat/ - the 4 bear inhabited regions of the arctic, with the varying sea ice levels
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| A Mother's Calling, Starlite Studio, Kitty Cantrell. |
I like the above and below water level view of this sculpture, as if the viewer is just swimming off to the side of this wee family
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| The Copenhagen Ice Bear, Mark Coreth |
"Just outside the WWF International Arctic Programme's Arctic Tent at COP 15, visitors were able to see a life-size sculpture of a male hunting polar bear.
The statue stood at 1.8 metres high – as high as the disappearing arctic sea ice is thick.
In touching this sculpture visitors made a direct connection with the polar bear and its ice-locked home.
As many hands helped to warm and melt the bear, revealing the bronze skeleton within, this changing sculpture brought home to each person how people have the power to affect the delicate balance of nature."
The artist's vision of this statue is really poignant, and one I empathise with greatly. The striking thing about this sculpture is, at the very end, a few years after it had melted to leave the remaining bronze, metal thieves stole the sculpture and melted it down. The artist saw it as a final tribute to just how much human hands have contributed to the destruction of polar bear populations, a fitting end to his installation.
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| Site exploration exercise in class with Ruth |
My thinking behind this arrangement was a take on hot water(the jug) melting the sea ice (the blue wool) creating struggles for the polar bear. I definitely want to do something representing the melting ice, but maybe having a double sided sculpture, one side with a bear stranded at sea, the other side showing deforestation/habitat encroachment by humans.
References
Bear cartoon - https://polarbearsinternational.org/
A Mother's Calling - http://www.armiks.com/Genesis/Genesis_Studios_Sculptures___F/JCGR-1__Polar_Sea__Polar_Bear_/Gentle_Waters__whale_by_John_C/A_Mothers_Calling__polar_bear_/a_mothers_calling__polar_bear_.html
Ice Bear Project
photo - http://the-ipf.com/2016/02/27/polar-bear-day-death-powerful-story-global-warming/
paragraph- http://wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/where_we_work/arctic/news/past_events/cop_15/icebearproject/
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