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Artist dyes iceberg red in Greenland
An artist with 780 gallons of red dye, three fire hoses and a 20 member crew at his disposal went to Greenland in search of a blank canvas large enough to accommodate his creative impulse. The result is a blood-red iceberg now sitting off the country's western . "We all have a need to decorate Mother Nature because it to all of us,” Danish artist Marco Evaristti said Tuesday. "This is my iceberg; it belongs to me.” Just how Greenlanders view his masterpiece isn't clear yet. There was no immediate reaction from authorities, who are generally very protective of their unspoiled environment.
Evaristti and his crew sailed in two ice breakers from the small town of Llullissat, Greenland, on Wednesday, and zigzagged among icebergs for about 30 minutes before they the perfect frozen canvas. Working in sub-zero temperatures, it took about two hours for the 40 year-old artist to paint the tip of the iceberg, a volume of nearly 10, 000 square feet. The team sprayed the iceberg with the same dye used to tint meat, diluted with sea water, Evaristti said in a telephone interview from Llullissat, which means "icebergs” in Greenland. The town of 4,000, a tourist destination because of its scenery, sits at the mouth of the Kangia fjord which is 25 miles and five miles .
The fjord is filled with hundreds of icebergs, not surprisingly all of them white. Evaristti, who was in Chile, drew widespread attention and disdain when he displayed 10 working blenders filled with goldfish in a Danish art in 2000. He invited guests to turn the devices on, and someone did, grinding up a of goldfish. The gallery director was tried on charges of animal cruelty, but acquitted.