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保护你所爱
Protect What You Love

西班牙瓦伦西亚人是热情开朗的，当地最具特色的节日似乎也在印着着当地市民的热情，法尔斯火的盛宴通常在三月底举办。每次狂欢节上都有不同主题的巨大木偶放置在广场上展示数日，然后燃烧庆祝。

今年作品是艺术家Antonio Segura 创作的一只 23 英尺高的北极熊，又名 Dulk（以前）。作品的主体是一个北极熊妈妈，她雪白的毛皮像北极的冰川一样在融化。很多动物在她身上瑟缩起来好似在躲避危险，或是寻找着新的栖息地。考拉代表了2020年的澳大利亚野火，其中超过 60,000 只生物丧生。红毛猩猩代表婆罗洲的生物，在人类狩猎、采伐棕榈油和农林业发展的情况下生存变成岌岌可危。鱼变成罐头，以反映过度捕捞造成的海洋生物链失衡。艺术家用这样的主题“Protect What You Love保护你所爱”来提醒人们直面野生动物正在面对一个何样的处境。

Following works by PichiAvo, Okuda San Miguel, and Escif in previous iterations, Dulk’s fantastical and surreal “Protect What You Love” featured wildlife and plants balanced on top of the cold-weather creature. Two years in the making, the monumental piece was constructed with cardboard and wood, and a team assembled the approximately 30 individual vignettes around the central figure once on site. Each of the works speaks to the urgent need to address the climate crisis, which Dulk explains:

We have the mother polar bear in the main square for falles, her fur melting like a candle as other animals take refuge on and around her. They are lost and they are all in search of a new habitat… The koala represents the wildfires of Australia in 2019/2020 where over 60,000 of the creatures lost their lives. The orangutan represents Borneo where their rapid decline as a species is a direct result from hunting, logging Palm oil, and developments in agroforestry. The fish turns to a can, to reflect the loss of marine life from overfishing.

“Protect What You Love,” which burned this last weekend, is a poetic reminder of how quickly loss can occur. “While this is just a metaphor it could become our reality unless we begin to change our behaviour,” Dulk tells Charlotte Pyatt in an interview with Juxtapoz. “I hope the event more than anything else, encourages awareness and action for these urgent concerns.”

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