Ice Bear Sculpture

 

After a week of miserable weather, I was itching to get out and I think Jaeminkins was a well. I read that there was going to be a life-sized melting ice sculpture of a hunting male polar bear which was going to be carved today and then left to melt over a period of 3-4 days with its bronze skeleton remaining at the front of Customs House Square. 

Miss V and I with our perspective bubs walked over to the Rocks, enjoying the sun and blue sky. During our walk we discovered a few dead ends, mostly due to renovation works which required us to backtrack a few times. 

When we finally got to Customs house, there was a crowd happening with many international news crew. Miss V and I watched British sculptor Mark Coreth carve up the ice sculpture. Apparently he started at 7am so when we were there it looked quite like a polar bear. It was life size measuring 2.2 metres high and 4 metres long.

The Ice Bear was to mark World Environment Day as the sculpture melted with a bronze skeleton remaining – a poignant metaphor for the human impact on our environment. Sydney Ice Bear will raise much-needed funds for the three partner environmental organisations, WWF-Australia, 1 million women and Australian Youth Climate Coalition (AYCC). 

The Sydney Ice Bear is the sixth appearance of the inspirational sculpture which, according to Mark Coreth, highlights the important nexus between art and environment. Since 2009 as part of its world tour, Ice Bear has appeared in Copenhagen, London, Toronto, Montreal and Manchester, highlighting the urgent need for action on climate change http://www.icebearproject.org/.

The sculpture is on from 3-10 June and apparently is lit with LED’s at night as part of the Vivid Festival as well. Go check it out.

We went on to Harbour Kitchen and dined on a chilli dog and chips from Charlie & Co. I wasn't that impressed with the chilli dog, think it was the sausage and the lack of onions? Or perhaps it was thinking that takeway would be quicker and  instead we waited for ages and our bubs were not impressed.

Headed home and we let the boys, Jordan and Jaeminkins do their thing and all we could hear were cackles of laughter. Too cute.