Melting Vitruvian Man, Arctic<\/h3>\n\n
In 2011, artist John Quigley recreated Leonardo Da Vinci\u2019s sketch Vitruvian Man from copper on the Arctic sea ice, with help from the crew of the Greenpeace icebreaker Arctic Sunrise. The giant artwork would slowly slip into the icy waters as the ice floe melts. Quigley had said that \u201cclimate change is literally eating into the body of our civilization. When he (Da Vinci) did this sketch it was the Enlightenment, the Renaissance, the dawn of this innovative age that continues to this day, but our use of fossil fuels is threatening that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n
Greenpeace commissioned the work to highlight the fact that the Arctic is melting and that world leaders had to take urgent action on climate change. That summer, the sea ice minimum was the lowest on record; it has since continued to decline further. If sea ice were to disappear altogether in the summertime, it would have grave implications for human beings and biodiversity.<\/p>\n\n
All materials were removed after construction and the copper was reused.<\/p>\n
Wings of Paradise, Worldwide<\/h3>\n\n
From Jakarta to Mexico City, New York to Prague, artists collaborated with Greenpeace to make city walls their canvas in order to draw attention to the destruction of the Indonesian rainforest by the palm oil industry.<\/p>\n\n
The Wings of Paradise project in 2018 had 20 giant murals, many larger than 25 square metres, in 20 cities worldwide. The project was a part of a Greenpeace campaign calling for global brands to protect rainforests, its biodiversity and communities and stop buying palm oil from forest destroyers. <\/p>\n\n
\u201cThe Wings of Paradise murals are hopefully a starting point for an open dialogue through creative art-activism. We hope our art will raise awareness and inspire action to protect the rainforests of Papua and its rich biodiversity, at the same time we highlight the beauty and diversity of co-creation,\u201d said one of the artists, Lee Hui Ling, who worked with 30 volunteers to bring to life a 106 square metres mural in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<\/p>\n
African Trash Mask, Namibia<\/h3>\n\n
To combat trash pollution and to bring awareness to the waste produced by consumerism, Greenpeace Africa worked with Advantage Y&R in 2017 to produce a series of print ads entitled \u2018African Trash Masks\u2019. Masks are familiar icons in Africa and the powerful imagery was used to start conversations on pollution and its impact on future generations. <\/p>\n\n
The striking masks were created by Namibian artists Petrus Shiimi and Saima Iita. The ads were run in newspapers and displayed on street poles as well as distributed as posters in schools and colleges to inspire young people to think about disposing of rubbish responsibly.<\/p>\n\n In 2017, Greenpeace Taiwan volunteers rappelled down the side of the Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s (EPA) building to perform a daring aerial dance to the amazement of on-lookers below. Working with professional dance choreographers and trainers, the participants trained for six months to portray marine animals that had mistakenly eaten plastic waste and suffocated. <\/p>\n\n The dance was part of a series of events to highlight the plastic pollution problem in oceans and to promote sustainable ways to cut down on plastic use. <\/p>\n As our jungles disappear, so will the fascinating calls of the wild. In 2017, Indonesian DJ Ninda Felina travelled to Kalasou valley in West Papua to record and capture the sounds of the Papuan rainforest for Greenpeace and BBDO Singapore\u2019s Save Our Sounds (SOS) project. Using these unique sounds, she collaborated with international music producer Ben Rosen to create the dance music track \u201cBirds of Paradise”. The purpose of the groundbreaking project was to bring the sounds of the jungle to the people of Jakarta and to raise public awareness of deforestation.<\/p>\n\n \u201cLearning to really listen to the forest inspired me, and I hope that these sounds will not only give new colour to my music, but also inspire others to start paying attention to the forest and take action to preserve it,\u201d said DJ Ninda.<\/p>\n\n The track was first released in Jakarta before being performed as part of DJ Ninda\u2019s set at Wonderfruit Festival in Thailand.<\/p>\n\n![\"African](\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-international-stateless\/2022\/06\/3590ab53-gp0stqxi5-724x1024.jpg\" "\\"African")
Vertical Dance, Taiwan<\/h3>\n\n
Save Our Sounds, Southeast Asia<\/h3>\n\n