COP15. The Melting Ice Bear by Mark Coreth. Copenhagen.
British sculptor, Mark Coreth, created this true size polar ice bear, cut out of a 9 tonnes ice block at Kongens Nytorv, Copenhagen, up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference. Inside the ice block there is a bronze skeleton. As the ice is melting away, only the skeleton stands out, as on this photo, symbolizing the rapid climate change for the public at large and for the negotiating COP15 politicians at the Bella Center. The ice sculpture was very popular among the passers-by and particular for the children who could touch the bear and feel the water dripping from the melting ice. "By seeing and feeling, you get a much deeper and stronger emotional understanding of what we are doing to this planet and to its species,." explains Mr. Coreth. As the original proposed Copenhagen 2 degrees C legal binding agreement drifted away during the12 days UN conference - caused by deep historical differencies between North and South and to some extent between East and West - the Polar Ice Bear showed it’s skeleton ever more clearly: A grim and terminating display of the Polar Bear’s furure – and for the hundred of millions of people, sharing the very same future of death, displacement and fundamental change of life as that of the Polar Bear.
Size: 5616px × 3747px
Location: Kongens Nytorv, Ciopenhagen, Denmark
Photo credit: © OJPHOTOS / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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