By Jason deCaires Taylor
A extraordinary mixture of paintings, nature, and conservation, The Underwater Museum re-creates an awe-inspiring dive into the staggering under-ocean sculpture parks of artist Jason deCaires Taylor. Taylor casts his life-size statues from a distinct form of cement that enables reef progress, and sinks them to the sea flooring. There, through the years, the works of art allure corals, algae, and fish, and evolve into appealing and surreal installations which are additionally dwelling reefs. This quantity brings readers head to head with those wonders and explains the technological know-how in the back of their production. Ocean fanatics, divers, paintings fanatics, and a person entranced via the flora and fauna could be immediately engrossed through this pearl of a ebook.
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Eventually her features are lost beneath layers of encrusting coral and sprouting tufts of fleshy algae.
38 | 39 39 | 39 40 | 41 42 | 42 The Bankers symbolize denial, a resistance to acknowledge our looming environmental crisis, and the shortsighted actions of banking and government institutions. The identical positioning of the figures in a prayer-like pose also aims to highlight a shift in values—the replacement of idealism with a misplaced emphasis on monetary remuneration. The buttocks support an internal living space for crustaceans and juvenile fish to breed and inhabit. 42 | 43 Assembled entirely from casts of human ears molded during a workshop of local Cancún students, The Listener is constantly recording the marine environment to advance our understanding of acoustic relationships while informing the science of conservation management.
50 | 51 52 | 29 54 | 55 Symbolically representing the cycle of life, the children comprising Vicissitudes echo how we are all affected and transformed by circumstances, opportunities, and local surroundings, and how these changes begin to inscribe themselves within the physical body. Using young people for the artwork highlights the capacity of humans to adapt to their environment but also brings to attention the importance of attending to the future of that environment. 56 | 57 58 | 59 60 | 61 61 | 61 The first marine life to settle on Grace, part of The Silent Evolution, is a fuzzy layer of turf algae.