Photo of the Day ~ Leonardo Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man On Ice - Mission Blue

April 23, 2013

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Da Vinci’s 500-year-old Vitruvian Man was reinvented on the Arctic Sea Ice in 2011 with the help of Mission Blue Partner Greenpeace and Los Angeles artist John Quigley in an effort to “draw attention to how climate change is causing the rapid melting of sea ice beyond most predictions.”

Constructed with copper banding, which was later removed and recycled, a team of Greenpeace activists laid out “Melting Vitruvian Man” on an ice sheet which was the size of four olympic-size swimming pools, following artist Quigley’s specifications.

Using Greenpeace’s ice-breaker, the Arctic Sunrise, they travelled to a remote area 500 miles from the North Pole, after scouting for the perfect ice canvas from the air. The installation was created in the Fram Strait between Greenland and Norway’s Svalbard Islands.

“We came here to create the ‘Melting Vitruvian Man’ … because climate change is literally eating into the body of our civilization,” said artist John Quigley.

Feature photo: Rick Cobbing/Greenpeace

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