Volkswagen Beetle - an artificial reef in Mexico

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

Through its activities, Mankind greatly influences the ecology of the planet Earth. And, of course, it does not affect for the better. The consequence of this process is, among other things, the destruction of coral reefs around the world. But there are lonely organizations and enthusiasts who are fighting their disappearance. The latter include, for example, an artist and a sculptor Jason de caires taylorwho recently created basis for the future reef in the form of a car Volkswagen beetle.

Last year, we told you about an unusual sculpture park created by Jason de Caires Taylor, located at a shallow depth under water off the coast of Grenada, a small island nation in the Caribbean.

Jason de Caires Taylor created something similar recently and off the coast of Mexico. And, more specifically, in the area of the world famous resort of Cancun. Here, through the efforts of this artist and sculptor, an underwater park appeared, consisting of four hundred sculptures.

But these are not just sculptures installed under water. These are the foundations for future coral reefs that will grow on these frameworks in a few years and, in the future, decades. In addition, these sculptures contain many cavities and holes in which Jason de Caires Taylor expects to settle in the very near future. all kinds of crustaceans, fish and other inhabitants of warm seas.

The central sculpture in this underwater park off the coast of Cancun is the Volkswagen Beetle, made of concrete on a one-to-one scale. This form for the sculpture was not chosen in vain. Jason de Caires Taylor says that in the twentieth century this car has become a symbol of industrialization, a consumer society, the development of which leads to the rapid destruction of wildlife. But in the underwater park, the Volkswagen Beetle will, on the contrary, become a symbol of the rebirth of nature, the basis on which future natural beauties and entire underwater worlds with their own population and traditions will grow.