Amsterdam Light Festival: Climate Change + Nature...

Surface Tension showed a spooky version of what could happen if sea levels keep rising.

While Atlantis took the sea levels to the next phase, where entire cities are underwater.

Every time a boat would pass, lines would appear on Icebreaker to remind us of when the canals used to freeze and canal boats would cut through like icebreakers.

At first glance, these colorful lights on the National Maritime Museum are lovely, but the message behind The Ice is Melting at the Poles is highly disturbing. Those aren’t just random colors, but depict warming stripes, a graph of global temperature change as a function of time.

The Butterfly Effect features seven large butterflies as a reminder that even a small action by one person can have a ripple effect and make a world of difference.

Mysterious eyes lurked from the bushes behind ARTIS Zoo. These weren’t just any eyes as they were designed by 800 school children in Amsterdam with a rota so the kids could come see when their eyes were featured.