Support: Giant Hands Rise From A Canal In Venice To Send A Powerful Message About Climate Change
Global warming is a ticking bomb that we need to defuse before it explodes. To raise awareness about this modern issue, Italian artist Lorenzo Quinn (previously here) has built a monumental sculpture for the 2017 Venice Art Biennale.
Quinn is widely known for incorporating elements of the human body parts in his work, and this project is no different. Titled Support, it depicts two massive hands, rising from a canal to support the Ca’ Sagredo Hotel. It is a visual statement, that people need to repond to global warming appropriately before it’s too late. “Venice is a floating art city that has inspired cultures for centuries,” Lorenzo Quinn told Halcyon Gallery. “But to continue to do so it needs the support of our generation and future ones, because it is threatened by climate change and time decay.”
Reflecting on the two sides of humans – the creative and the destructive – Quinn addresses their ability to make a change and re-balance the world around them. Support evokes both hope in trying to hold up the building above the water and fear in highlighting the fragility of the situation. It’s a powerful statement with meticulous execution. “I wanted to sculpt what is considered the hardest and most technically challenging part of the human body,” the artist said. “The hand holds so much power – the power to love, to hate, to create, to destroy.”
More info: lorenzoquinn.com | halcyongallery.com | Instagram (h/t: colossal)
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Overpopulation is the cause, man is the most destructive species in history. If anyone involve has mero than two children before tehy were 40, they are the reason. Mowing and building buildings and roads is why the wildflife is dying. "...How ironic, the species that calls itself the smartest is the only species than can, and many, extinct iteslf and all life on it." -89c95JaymeeLeppley
Welcome to boredpanda where we respect differences in opinion and ideology. Haha jk
Artistic, creative, well done - but it doesn't explain why NASA lied about temperatures. Hottest years on record in US were definitely dust bowl/drought 1930s. They lied and changed the temps. Excuse? - monitoring stations are in different places today - so they said ACTUAL, real, measured temperatures didn't happen - when they did - and GUESSED what the temps would've been in the new locations. Which are all in what EPA calls urban "heat islands" where daytime temps are 5 degrees hotter than rural areas, night time temps about 20 degrees warmer. THAT is where your warming happens - in cities, where almost all measurements are taken. Vikings farmed Greenland from 800AD to 1200AD - too cold now. Antarctic ice is building up faster than arctic ice melts.... it's freaking May in N Calif - i have the wood stove fired up, dammut.
Clever. Well done. But how come the net ice build up in the Antarctic is much greater than the loss in the Arctic if the whole world is getting warmer. Why have my summers been colder? How come the Vikings farmed Greenland from a bit after 800 AD until about 1200+AD when it became too cold AGAIN? How come almost every monitoring station is in urban areas, when they are (according to the EPA) "heat islands" which average five degrees warmer than the surrounding rural areas during the day, and up to 20 degrees warmer than the surrounding rural areas at night? This makes the increasingly warmer heat islands the source of the mythical global warming. How come NASA has twice (at least) LIED about temperatures - the highest temps recorded in the US were in the DUST BOWL/DROUGHT years - but NASA changed them and dropped them, saying that present monitoring station locations would have been different. Well EXCUSE ME - but those temperatures that were tossed out were actual, real, measured te
Let me say something to you I'm sure you've said hundreds of times to others: FAKE NEWS.
Load More Replies...Let me just copy and paste my last response to you. Yes, Jim, you supreme moron. Climate change is a liberal hoax designed to give, your children, your children's children and beyond, fresh air to breathe, fresh water to drink, and fresh food to eat. It's a giant conspiracy to turn the planet into something to support generations to come.
Load More Replies...Climate change isn't political. Politicians have tried to make it so, but rising global temperatures that threaten us all have nothing to do with politics.
Load More Replies...naturally which just háppens to occur during us deepfrying it in oil and cow manure
Load More Replies...Also I don't think you realise you quoted an article from a tabloid site that produces such gems as: "UFO the size of a bus spotted at International Space Station" http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/613857/alien-spaceship-ufo-international-space-station-nasa-live-feed
Load More Replies...Overpopulation is the cause, man is the most destructive species in history. If anyone involve has mero than two children before tehy were 40, they are the reason. Mowing and building buildings and roads is why the wildflife is dying. "...How ironic, the species that calls itself the smartest is the only species than can, and many, extinct iteslf and all life on it." -89c95JaymeeLeppley
Welcome to boredpanda where we respect differences in opinion and ideology. Haha jk
Artistic, creative, well done - but it doesn't explain why NASA lied about temperatures. Hottest years on record in US were definitely dust bowl/drought 1930s. They lied and changed the temps. Excuse? - monitoring stations are in different places today - so they said ACTUAL, real, measured temperatures didn't happen - when they did - and GUESSED what the temps would've been in the new locations. Which are all in what EPA calls urban "heat islands" where daytime temps are 5 degrees hotter than rural areas, night time temps about 20 degrees warmer. THAT is where your warming happens - in cities, where almost all measurements are taken. Vikings farmed Greenland from 800AD to 1200AD - too cold now. Antarctic ice is building up faster than arctic ice melts.... it's freaking May in N Calif - i have the wood stove fired up, dammut.
Clever. Well done. But how come the net ice build up in the Antarctic is much greater than the loss in the Arctic if the whole world is getting warmer. Why have my summers been colder? How come the Vikings farmed Greenland from a bit after 800 AD until about 1200+AD when it became too cold AGAIN? How come almost every monitoring station is in urban areas, when they are (according to the EPA) "heat islands" which average five degrees warmer than the surrounding rural areas during the day, and up to 20 degrees warmer than the surrounding rural areas at night? This makes the increasingly warmer heat islands the source of the mythical global warming. How come NASA has twice (at least) LIED about temperatures - the highest temps recorded in the US were in the DUST BOWL/DROUGHT years - but NASA changed them and dropped them, saying that present monitoring station locations would have been different. Well EXCUSE ME - but those temperatures that were tossed out were actual, real, measured te
Let me say something to you I'm sure you've said hundreds of times to others: FAKE NEWS.
Load More Replies...Let me just copy and paste my last response to you. Yes, Jim, you supreme moron. Climate change is a liberal hoax designed to give, your children, your children's children and beyond, fresh air to breathe, fresh water to drink, and fresh food to eat. It's a giant conspiracy to turn the planet into something to support generations to come.
Load More Replies...Climate change isn't political. Politicians have tried to make it so, but rising global temperatures that threaten us all have nothing to do with politics.
Load More Replies...naturally which just háppens to occur during us deepfrying it in oil and cow manure
Load More Replies...Also I don't think you realise you quoted an article from a tabloid site that produces such gems as: "UFO the size of a bus spotted at International Space Station" http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/613857/alien-spaceship-ufo-international-space-station-nasa-live-feed
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