Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Mark Coretn in Copenhagen with ice polar bear protest with worldwide photo ops via Reuters wire service

In Copenhagen, Denmark, close to where nearly 7,620,000 people are expected to attend the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change a British sculptor carving a polar bear out of ice, with a bronze skeleton inside, hopes to make a powerful environmental message when the Arctic animal art piece melts.Mark Coreth started creating the ice polar bear on Friday in Kongens Nytorv Square.
Observers will be encouraged to be interactive with the sculpture, he added, saying that anyone who touches it will help change the shape and "represent the human aspect of warming the planet.
"We hope that this creative act will bring home to each person how humanity has the power to affect the delicate balance of nature," he said

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