OK, so I wouldn’t encourage everyone to do this, because then we’d pollute our oceans too much, but this guy’s art is really interesting. The artist, Jason de Caires Taylor, uses sculptures to create artificial reefs. The hopes? To “promote hope and recovery, and underline our need to understand and protect the natural world.”
Of course, I have to wonder if in a thousand years or something, with coral all over them, how will they look? And, if you can still see the human features, isn’t some poor diver going to get really, really freaked out? Heck, even knowing they’re just art, I might get freaked out if I dove and looked at some of these.
The TamCC Project. Depth: 2 m. Grenada, West Indies.
Vicissitudes. Depth: 4.5 m. Grenada, West Indies
Vicissitudes. Depth: 4.5 m. Grenada, West Indies.
The Lost Correspondent. Depth: 7m. Grenada, West Indies.
Grace Reef. Depth: 4.2 m. Grenada, West Indies.
Grace Reef. Depth: 4.2 m. Grenada, West Indies.
Anyhow, I just thought the art was very cool marine-oriented. Finally, someone promoting marine life with art!
Oh. My. God.
I love art.
I love scuba diving.
That is some of the freakiest
shitstuff I’ve eversceneseen.…genius…
I’m with Ian. Expletives including. I didn’t know! And it is so close by. I have to dive there.
They’re definitely cool… but I still think they’re freaky. I mean, especially “grace reef” … it looks like some underwater graveyard. It’s downright creepy.