Pages

October 10, 2011

Drowning Beautiful

Sometimes an artist creates something so beautifully simple that it takes your breath away…. literally. (hack line – couldn’t help it) Artist Jason de Caires Taylor creates life-size cement sculptures of people and submerges them into the waters of South America. As time passes the sculptures become part of the underwater landscape and slowly become artificial reefs ripe with marine life. The process of experiencing artwork out of a traditional gallery and underwater is described with intimately 
vivid detail on his site. Absolutely incredible execution merging art, life and the wild seas into an ever-evolving textured aesthetic that will hopefully stand the test of time. Although, I wouldn’t hold 
our breath. (Dammit! I did it again) Wow
















The first thing thing I thought of after looking at this, besides it being beautiful and breathtaking, was that what if in maybe hundreds of years from now, if someone found these what would they think? They’d probably think it was some kind of ritual, but I’m pretty art wouldn’t be theb first vthing on their minds

1 comment:

  1. Your blog is briliant and I am made richer for reading it. I hope eventually all artifacts are returned that are stolen to your beautiful land. Wish you and your people the best life can bring. Thank you for sharing. Greetings from Australia.

    ReplyDelete