I know it seems like I’ve talked a lot about icebergs already, but look at this!!!
Danish artist Marco Evaristti took 780 gallons of red paint, three fire hoses and a 20-member crew to Greenland in search of a blank canvas large enough to accommodate his creative impulse. The result is a blood-red iceberg now sitting off the country’s western coast. The work is part of his Trilogy series.
“Trilogy comprises three projects that deal with the themes of territories and states. Using fruit color and fabric, Evaristti coloured an ice cube in Greenland, areas of Mont Blanc and a sand dune in the Sahara, red. He then declared them all as his territory and named it ‘Pink State’. The work is a series of transient changes in nature, touching on issues of environmental pollution, territorial demands and political methods.”
Evaristti was arrested during the Mont Blanc painting.
Thats insane… you should bring this up in our next humanities class Dana, relate it back to the article “Tragedy of the Commons”
Evaristti has made a very illustrated example of the concept of the commons; I wonder if this altered any inhabitants around the work or if they even noticed that their home was hot pink now…
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