Thom Yorke Helps Produce Eco Art Campaign Visible From Space

Radiohead’s lead singer, Thom Yorke, has worked with 350.org to gather thousands of people, who together will form art visible from space. This Saturday Brighton’s coastline will be the canvas for a gigantic image of King Canute, taken from Yorke’s album cover, The Eraser. The images will be photographed by satellites and displayed on the 350.org website.

Strategically taking place a week before the UN Climate Meetings in Mexico, artists and volunteers all around the world will be producing large-scale images. The aim of which is to send a political message about the state of emergency of the Earth’s climate to pressure leaders at the summit. Thom Yorke explained, "The plan is to make images visible from the skies to remind those in Cancun that we're running out of time. We can't keep putting this off."
The Main organiser, 350.org, teamed up with DigitalGlobe a provider of earth imagery who will be photographing the spectacles by satellites traveling 17,000 m.p.h. nearly 400 miles above the surface of the planet.

The earth-wide art exhibition titled 350 Earth, will see international public art display various climate based imagery: in Iceland, people will form a giant polar bear on melting glaciers; in Egypt, a traditional scarab beetle in the desert; in South Africa, a sun made of solar cookers in Cape Town; in Cancun, underwater statues to help rebuild coral reefs; and more.
Yorke explains the symbolism of King Canute "In the paper one day, [Friends of the Earth activist] Jonathan Porrit was basically dismissing any commitment that the working government has toward addressing global warming, saying that their gestures were like King Canute trying to stop the tide.” Yorke adds, “It's not political, but that's what I feel is happening. We're all King Canutes, holding our hands out, saying, "It'll go away. I can make it stop." No, you can't."

350.org founder and environmental author Bill McKibben said, “The first pictures of Earth from space helped launch the modern environmental movement,” he goes on to explain, “We hope these art pieces can help spark a new movement to solve the climate crisis. Art is not a substitute for political action, but it can help build a public movement that can begin to apply real pressure.”

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Look out for photos added to the http://earth.350.org/ website and social media. 

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