Sean Yoro is a Hawaiian artist who goes by the name HULA, and with the help of renowned adventurers, climbers and filmmakers Renan Ozturk and Taylor Rees (part of the Camp4 Collective), traveled to the ice-berg filled arctic waters off the shore of Baffin Island, Nunavut, to create an impermanent portrait of a local Inuit woman on the shrinking ice.
Ozturk and Rees also direct and narrate the documentary film of the moving (literally and figuratively) environmental art installation, created with non-toxic paints on plastic and ice that is cleaned up after the project is complete.
“What if I Fly” is a play on the dichotomy of trying things, permanently tattooed on Yoro’s neck alongside “What if I Fall.” His work around the world often focuses on images of women in areas affected by climate change.
The art itself is a continuation of the tradition of in-situ, large-scale environmental artwork pioneered by the work of Christo and Jeanne-Claude, famous for their 24-mile long “Running Fence” in California among other projects.
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