Over 1200 people showed to create a human whale in Santiago, Chile this past week. While it was not the official launch of the Circle Up Now Tour - it does represent a true link between the environment and human rights.

Francisco Letelier and I collaborated to create this image. Letelier is a well known Chilean Artist living in Los Angeles, whose father was a human rights activist assassinated in Washington DC by Pinochet in the 1970’s.

Together, we incorporated a circle as a sanctuary portal for the endangered whales to enter into as they called for a permanent global whale sanctuary. The image appeared on the front page of the three largest newspapers in Chile as well as throughout Latin America, Spain, Mexico, and Australia. There was also heavy TV coverage in Chile and Australia.

The next day the Image was presented to the Michelle Bachelet, President of Chile, at a reception following a ceremony to declare Chilean waters a permanent whale sanctuary.

Read the articles from the papers!

La Nacion | La Tercera | La Tercera Article