Mark Dion: Polar Bears and Toucans (from Amazonas to Svalbard), stuffed toy animal, sound recording from the Venezuelan amazon jungle, tar, crate, 231 x 112 x 75 cm, 1991
Mark Dion: Ursus maritimus, goat skin, photographs, crate, tar, 1991
Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus), Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago
Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus), Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago
Polare Orso (Ursus maritimus), Museo Civico di Zoologica, Roma
Polare Orso (Ursus maritimus), Museo Zoologico La Specola, Florence
Isbjørn (Ursus maritimus), Bergen Museum, Bergen
L’Ours blanc (Ursus maritimus), Deyrolle, Paris
Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus), Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh
Regardless of how diminished and frail our picture of nature has become, floods, droughts, earthquakes, and climatic changes continually remind us of the power and complexity of the environment and our inability to control or predict it.
Mark Dion: Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus)
Submitted by: Mark Dion
Mark Dion: Polar Bears and Toucans (from Amazonas to Svalbard), stuffed toy animal, sound recording from the Venezuelan amazon jungle, tar, crate, 231 x 112 x 75 cm, 1991
Regardless of how diminished and frail our picture of nature has become, floods, droughts, earthquakes, and climatic changes continually remind us of the power and complexity of the environment and our inability to control or predict it.