Photo: Da Vinci goes on the ice to protest global warming

John Quigley who designed the “Arctic Warning” image for Earth Day 2005 in Iqaluit, has created a new image on ice, called the “Melting Vitruvian Man.” Quigley’s design, laid out in copper strips on the ice 800 kilometres from the North Pole, was inspired by “The Vitruvian Man,” a Leonardo Da Vinci ink drawing from 1487 of a man in two positions within a circle and a square. Two of his arms and one of his legs are missing: “literally climate change is eating into the body of our civilisation,” Quigley says in a video clip from Greenpeace, whose ship, the Arctic Sunrise, brought Quigley to the ice where he assembled the image. (PHOTO BY NICK COBBING/GREENPEACE)