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Paul Jacobsen, an American artist, paints prestine scenes of lush meadows and soaring mountains. Well, that would not be worth mentioning - would it? What makes Paul Jacobsen's art so amazing is that some of his oil paintings are interspersed with massive piles of garbage, while others depict naked people dancing in the meadows.
CapeFarewell.com
is a total environmental project devised by David Buckland which
cumulates in a sailing voyage north of the arctic circle, featured live
on the internet.
Since 2001 David Buckland has brought together artists, scientists, and educators to the Arctic. Over several trips the artist has chronicled the receding of the region's ice in documentary films and photographs.
More info at www.capefarewell.com
Filmed by Nick Knight and with a soundtrack of Professor Helen Storey intoning scientific formula as fitting backdrop, this filmic finale to the 'Wonderland' project documents the aquatic aerobics of Helen's collection in the last stage of its life. With the clothes literally peeling from her body as the remarkable biodegradable polymers react against their submerged state, watch as model Alice Dellal twists and turns through her underwater ballet and Helen's creations ultimately surrender to their watery grave.
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