Dutch sculptor Ap Verheggen’s sculpture is beginning to move. He placed the piece, “Dog Sled Riders”, on an iceberg in March to show the world how climate change affects the Inuit way of life. It’s a spare piece, an abstract representation of dog sled hunters on the ice. He intended that, as the iceberg it’s on melts, it will move through space until it drops to the bottom of the sea. Sort of an ephemeral pointer to a global problem.
But Verheggen says that his goal is to remind us that climate change begins with, as well as affects, all of us. “We have to put our energy in solutions. Climate change cannot be stopped. The climate always changes and will keep on changing, these are dynamic processes. Our culture always adapted to these changes, but now we are discussing the causes without looking at the future.”
You can follow the flow of The Dog Sled Riders on www.coolemotion.org
sculptures on the move
