Week 5 - Underwater Art - Marine G.

Underwater Art by Jason de Caires Taylor 

Jason de Caires Taylor is an English sculptor specializing in underwater sculptures. He lives actually in Cancun, and his latest work is “Urban Reef”: construction of little houses underwater for fishes and crustaceans. Before, he had created for example “The Silent Evolution”, in 2010, which is an army of men and women (403 people). Those cement people represents the Mayan civilization, in an eye form. The objective, like with the houses for fishes, is to create an artificial reef and developed news species in this sea. So, in his art work, this artist have an environmental move and he thinks that “human intervention or interaction with nature can be positive and sustainable, an icon of how we can live in a symbiotic relationship with nature”. Inert forms can be transformed in life and humans can be mix with the infinity. Numerous publications and documentaries have featured his extraordinary work, including the BBC, CNN, USA Today, the Guardian… 

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