Environment

An Artist Gives an Iceberg a Global Warming Makeover

Street artist HULA visited a disintegrating glacier to craft this haunting piece.
HULA

The way sea levels are projected to rise, coastal citizens may all be trudging around brow-high in water by the end of the century. That flooded future is well channeled in this new piece from Sean Yoro, who adorned an iceberg with the image of a half-submerged woman’s face.

Yoro, a New York-based artist who goes by HULA, traveled to an unspecified glacier in Iceland* to craft several statements on climate change. The one above, titled “A’o ‘Ana (The Warning),” was executed with oil paint on an acrylic sheet. (Here’s hoping he picked up the plastic afterward.) Yoro writes on Instagram: