The year 1765 is considered by some as the beginning of the industrial revolution. Artist <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-58787284">Wayne Binitie’s “1765” aims to show the artistic side on how much has changed since then.</a> Binitie said that it was the beginning of the significant damage done by humans to the atmosphere.In a collaboration with the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), he presented that year in a small artwork called “1765” Antarctic Air at the heart of the Polar Zero Exhibition in Glasgow. The man who mined the ice is glaciologist, Dr. Robert Mulvaney. He has been visiting the Antarctic for 25 years and stayed for 80 weeks in a tent to drill out ice before returning. Scientists do this to record what has happened to the ice sheet over a period of many years, so that we can know what happened to the climate and to the atmosphere. Some records go back to 120,000 years and 800,000 years.

Binitie thinks that global warming conversations can be too generic with issues too complex."So I hope our installation in Glasgow will persuade people that the polar regions are a sufficiently precious thing to care about. Some perspectives are political or theoretical or economic but we're trying to supply a poetic perspective too,” said Binitie.Image Credit: British Antarctic Survey#IceSculpture #GlobalWarming #Antarctica #IceArt #ArtExhibit

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