Christiania, Copenhagen, CO2 Dragon

so while i was in Holland over the summer I get a call from my old friend Martha Keller who is organizing a Climate Bottom Meeting in Christiania with the founders of the community there, and she asks me to do a mural on this public building, so i pop up there via train before i return to the states, make a few pieces on some walls there and start thinking what I will do for this, Christiania's unique response ( complete with teepees, yurts, a Finnish Sauna)to the COP15 climate Summit happening in Copenhagen in December... so imake my plans, gather a crew and start on drawings to cover one of the public performance spaces there in "freetown".... i come up with a CO2 dragon, a dragon shaped like the letters CO2, he's a tyrant blasting his foul flame breath on the city- actually a jumbled piled up mess representing civilization at present...there are signs of trouble within the city, a cacophony of color, piled tires, buildings, oil rigs, wires, factories, remnants of a post industrial world ,huge stumps left from the depleted forests, etc, and to the right of the city a giant wave or tsunami about to swallow the city in the belly of its blue.
for help i enlisted the services of my friend and trusty helper Le Josh who came with me from Philadelphia, and then i got a call from a good friend in Prague, Tomas Toulec who also wanted to come up and work with us... In 6 days we completed the painting, that was our limitation, our window of time before the village opened its seasonal Christmas market. so then we went about the village and added little personal touches for beautification purposes.