Haunting Underwater Sculptures

[Jazzy]

If this doesn’t give a much-needed boost to tourism in Mexico, I don’t know what will. I’ve come across an artist called Jason DeCaires Taylor, whose work has pretty much blown out of the water (pun intended) anything that I saw exhibiting at the Paris FIAC Art Fair last week. The sculptor and scuba diver who grew up in Europe and Asia to an English father and a Guyanese mother, has 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.

Wow, this is unbelievable!

What do you think?

 

[gaze-universe]

I think when there's no record left the people who find it are gonna wonder what's the point of it. And some rare ones are gonna be extremely curious and try to find references to the exhibition on the bottom of the sea and why it was done and if it was done to commemorate a huge loss.

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[Evil Eye]

That's pretty creepy


hiiru, I doubt those statues will outlast regular buildings, but it's indeed an interesting thought.