Street art paints the horror of climate change: hands and faces sink into glaciers

    Painting the human figure on the melting ice as a warning against climate change: this is the meaning of A'o 'Ana (The Warning), the series of works created by the Hawaiian globetrotter artist Sean Yoro, better known as Hula , to show the world how urgent it is to intervene, stopping a process that puts the very survival of millions of people at risk.





    Painting the human figure on the melting ice as a warning against climate change: this is the meaning of Learning (The Warning), the series of works created by the Hawaiian globetrotter artist Sean Yoro, better known as Hula, to show the world how urgent it is to intervene, stopping a process that puts the very survival of millions of people at risk.

    Hula is an artist specialized in the creation of large murals that integrate and blend the human figure into the surrounding space, be it urban or natural. In the case of A'o 'Ana, made during a trip to the north, a hand and a woman's face were painted with oil colors on acrylic plates mounted on the walls of two icebergs, which had just broken away from a large cluster of ice.

    The hand seems outstretched, as if seeking help, while the face is half submerged by the waters: a way to show the threat posed by the climate changes, which we often struggle to perceive but which is already a reality for millions of human beings who live in more exposed geographical regions.

    Street art paints the horror of climate change: hands and faces sink into glaciers

    Street art paints the horror of climate change: hands and faces sink into glaciers

    Street art paints the horror of climate change: hands and faces sink into glaciers

    Street art paints the horror of climate change: hands and faces sink into glaciers

    Street art paints the horror of climate change: hands and faces sink into glaciers

    “(It's about, ed) a series of wall paintings made on some of the pieces of ice that had just broken off from a nearby glacier. " - writes the artist on his website - “In the short time I spent there, I saw with my own eyes how extreme the melting rate is, and while I was painting, the sound of breaking ice was constant in the background. Within a few weeks, these murals will be gone forever, but I hope they instill in those who find them a sense of urgency, as they represent those millions of people who need our help, because they are already affected by the rise in the level. of the seas due to climate change. "



    His works are, by their very nature, ephemeral: a way to show the fate that awaits all the cloves of the north, and not only that, if we do not hurry to find effective solutions to the problem of climate change. A warning that we cannot fail to make ours, just as at the Cop21 in Paris, now in its final stages, negotiations are continuing to reach a binding agreement.


    Street art paints the horror of climate change: hands and faces sink into glaciers

    Lisa Vagnozzi

    Photo Credits: hula

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