「世界地球日 - 冰河的葬禮」
晚安，我是Rob。
我長期關注環境與氣候變遷，來到英國這兩年最大的目標之一，
是研究北極海冰融化與城市人類活動的關聯，
希望藉由收集的資料轉成藝術創作，
提醒人們重視我們做的所有消費選擇都會給環境帶來巨大影響。
北極聽起來離我們遙遠，
但兩極地區包含全世界70%的淡水，融化是全球性的災難。
又因洋流與大氣活動，
北極近年來發現大量海洋塑膠垃圾堆積、臭氧層破洞的區帶。
去年8月冰島舉行了一場冰河葬禮，
弔念第一個因全球暖化而消失的Okjökull(簡稱OK冰河)，
冰島政府與學者在葬禮上立碑，
碑上刻寫著：「這是封給未來的信。
OK是第一條失去冰河地位的冰河，但未來200 年間，所有冰河都將消失。
此紀念碑是為了記下，我們了解正在發生的事，及應採取的行動。」
遺憾的是OK冰河不是冰島唯一融化的冰川，
島上許多冰川如Skaftafeljökull, Breiðamerkurjökull都很快面臨消失。
去年11月我前往冰島進行田野調查，做為北極計畫的前期研究。
我訪問當地學者與有參加葬禮的居民，
以攝影、錄像、聲音的方式收集環境資料，
回到倫敦後製作成「消融之島 Melting Island」、
「藍色浮游 Blue Ephemera」兩件多媒體藝術創作，
於今年2月在英國皇家藝術學院(Royal College of Art)的聯展中展出。
「我小的時候每年都能在Reykjavik(冰島首都)看到下雪的白色聖誕節，但現在很少在城市裡下雪了。」
一名當地50歲的居民回憶起。
「大量海冰融化改變了冰島周圍的洋流，我擔心20年後這裡將沒有四季，而且冰川融化，島上缺少淡水也將不適生存。」
一名冰島大學的學者述說著。
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今天是4月22日：世界地球日(Earth Day)，
分享我在冰島進行田野調查時拍下的一些影像紀錄。
希望下次再見到它時，人們與地景都可愛如初。
即使住在城市裡，我們的每個行為、每次消費都仍對環境至關重要，
讓我們一起為地球多點關心，避免使用一次性餐具、塑膠製品、石化能源，
把這個世界的美好留給自己與下一代吧！
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Good night everyone, this is Rob, currently living in London.
I have been concerned about the environment and climate change for many years. One of my primary goals in the past two years in the UK has been to study the connection between the Ice-melting phenomenon in the Arctic ocean and urban human activities around the world.
By creating artistic projects representing the information collected via various methods, I hope to remind people that all the consumption choices we make will eventually have huge impacts on the environment. The Arctic sounds extremely far away from us, yet the polar regions contain 70% of the world’s freshwater, and Ice-melting is a global disaster. Besides, due to the ocean currents and the flow of the atmosphere, in the Arctic, it has been discovered a large amount of floating plastic waste accumulation and ozone layer holes in recent years.
Last August, Iceland held a funeral to mourn the Okjökull Glacier that disappeared due to global warming.
The Icelandic government and scholars set up a monument at the funeral.
“A letter to the future”. “In the next 200 years, all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it,” the inscription on the plaque reads.
After reading the report about the funeral, I went to Iceland for a field study in November last year.
I visited local scholars and residents who participated in the funeral, collected environmental information through photography, video, and sound recordings. After returning to London, I produced two multimedia art creations, "Melting Island" and "Blue Ephemera”, which are exhibited in the WIP show of the Royal College of Art in this January.
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On 22nd April: Earth Day 2020, I shared some images I took in Iceland, and hope that people, as well as the landscape, will be as lovely as ever when I visit Iceland again in the near future.
Even if we live in the cities, every behavior and every consumption is still vital to the environment.
Let us care more about our earth, reduce the use of disposable tableware, plastic products, and fossil fuel, protect the beauty of this world for ourselves and the next generation!
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