Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Thursday 28 July 2011
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Tuesday 29 March 2011
Underwater Sculpture
If I ever get the chance, I would love to visit the underwater sculptures by Jason deCaires Taylor out in the waters of Grenada in the West Indies and Cancun, off the coast of Mexico.
As part of conservation projects to help preserve precious coral reef, the Mexico based English-Guyanese artist (diving instructor and underwater photographer) carved many groups of statues from specialised cement and had them installed on the sea bed. The intention was to help promote coral growth and marine life on them to try and relieve the pressure from tourism on the natural reefs.
The result is fascinating and beautiful. There are scenes of sole statues sitting at desks or lying on a garden patio and groups of statues en mass or standing in a ring holding hands, all now resplendent in multi-coloured coral. Aquatic life swims past and shifting underwater light adds to the other-worldly effect.
What I love is that the reef systems which have been encouraged to establish on them have turned the sculptures, which are amazing on their own, into living pieces of art. They are literally alive and will, because of that, constantly be changing. Static, yet moving at the same time. It's such an elegant concept.
Simply mesmerising.
To see much more and read about the projects, visit the UnderwaterSculpture site and gallery.
As part of conservation projects to help preserve precious coral reef, the Mexico based English-Guyanese artist (diving instructor and underwater photographer) carved many groups of statues from specialised cement and had them installed on the sea bed. The intention was to help promote coral growth and marine life on them to try and relieve the pressure from tourism on the natural reefs.
The result is fascinating and beautiful. There are scenes of sole statues sitting at desks or lying on a garden patio and groups of statues en mass or standing in a ring holding hands, all now resplendent in multi-coloured coral. Aquatic life swims past and shifting underwater light adds to the other-worldly effect.
What I love is that the reef systems which have been encouraged to establish on them have turned the sculptures, which are amazing on their own, into living pieces of art. They are literally alive and will, because of that, constantly be changing. Static, yet moving at the same time. It's such an elegant concept.
Simply mesmerising.
To see much more and read about the projects, visit the UnderwaterSculpture site and gallery.
Wednesday 1 December 2010
Story telling with sand and music
By Kseniya Simonova, the very talented young lady who won Ukraine's Got Talent in 2009. This is her evocative recounting of Ukraine's experience of WWII. It moved the judges and the audience to tears. The first time I watched this, I cried too. You will be able to understand the story she's telling without needing to know the history or the language as there are no words, just the music and the amazing way she animates the sand. The emotions portrayed are very powerful.
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