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  • British artist installs phone link to dying glacier

    06/11/2007 5:42:13 AM PDT · by Daffynition · 25 replies · 503+ views
    Reuters ^ | Fri Jun 8, 2007 | Avril Ormsby
    LONDON, June 8 (Reuters Life!) - The creaking and splashing sounds of Europe's largest glacier slipping into an ocean grave are just a phone call away now that an artist has installed a microphone in its surrounding waters. Glaswegian artist Katie Paterson was moved to set up the line after hallucinating about Iceland's giant Vatnajokull glacier during a bout of fever. The link encourages people to connect emotionally with the glacier, she told Reuters from her tent on the Icelandic shoreline. "It is really poetic: a river of ice slowly disintegrating, quite discreetly, quite invisibly. Sheets of ice are constantly...