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Jason DeCaires Taylor, British sculptor and scuba diver grew up in Europe and Asia to an English father and a Guyanese mother, where he spent much of his early childhood exploring the coral reefs of Malaysia. Educated in South East England, he graduated in 1998 from Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London, with a B.A.Honours in Sculpture and Ceramics. He's also a fully qualified diving instructor, underwater naturalist and award winning underwater photographer. In 2006 he founded and created the world’s first underwater sculpture park, off the west coast of Grenada in the West Indies. In 2009 he co-founded MUSA (Museo Subacuático de Arte), a monumental museum with a collection of over 500 of his sculptural works, submerged off the coast of Cancun, Mexico.
He's been causing quite a stir in the media with his newest, largest and most chilling installation yet, 403 life-size human sculptures, spanning 420 square meters of barren sea bed. Named “The Silent Evolution”. He uses his diving and sculpting skill to save the ocean by creating a series of underwater sculptures, often enormous in size, that serve as artificial reefs for the preservation of marine wildlife. He has sculpted two thousands underwater sculptures around the world, from Canary Island, Mexico, Indonesia and many more.
“Taylor’s sculptures change over time with the effects of their environment. These factors create a living aspect to the works, which would be impossible to reproduce artificially. As time passes and the works develop biological growth, they redefine the underwater landscape, evolving within the narrative of nature. Taylor’s strategy of conserving reefs, opposes the “land as commodity” mentality of Capitalism. His creation of underwater sculpture parks attracts tourists away from natural reefs, allowing them to recover, and taps into tourism revenue, showing how activists might be able to use the system’s rapacious tendencies against itself.” – Jim Buxton
The work, "Rising Tide", on the banks of the River Thames, fuses oil extraction machinery with the equine form, evoking the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and raising questions of the climate impact of fossil fuels.
Jason DeCaires Taylor - Ted Talks >> https://www.ted.com/talks/jason_decaires_taylor_an_underwater_art_museum_teeming_with_life
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He's been causing quite a stir in the media with his newest, largest and most chilling installation yet, 403 life-size human sculptures, spanning 420 square meters of barren sea bed. Named “The Silent Evolution”. He uses his diving and sculpting skill to save the ocean by creating a series of underwater sculptures, often enormous in size, that serve as artificial reefs for the preservation of marine wildlife. He has sculpted two thousands underwater sculptures around the world, from Canary Island, Mexico, Indonesia and many more.
“Taylor’s sculptures change over time with the effects of their environment. These factors create a living aspect to the works, which would be impossible to reproduce artificially. As time passes and the works develop biological growth, they redefine the underwater landscape, evolving within the narrative of nature. Taylor’s strategy of conserving reefs, opposes the “land as commodity” mentality of Capitalism. His creation of underwater sculpture parks attracts tourists away from natural reefs, allowing them to recover, and taps into tourism revenue, showing how activists might be able to use the system’s rapacious tendencies against itself.” – Jim Buxton
The work, "Rising Tide", on the banks of the River Thames, fuses oil extraction machinery with the equine form, evoking the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and raising questions of the climate impact of fossil fuels.
Jason DeCaires Taylor - Ted Talks >> https://www.ted.com/talks/jason_decaires_taylor_an_underwater_art_museum_teeming_with_life
Ruby
