Video: The Last Supper, The Listener and the Phoenix - New Sculptures by Jason de Caires Taylor
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The vast majority of sculptors create their works so that people can admire these works. But this cannot be said at all about the author by name Jason de caires taylor, whose creations are very, very difficult to see. They are under the water … Moreover, most of his works are collected in a special underwater park Museo Subacuatico de Arte (MUSA) off the coast of the Mexican city of Cancun. It was there that they were recently installed three new sculptures from this author.
On the site Culturology. RF we have already talked about the work of Jason de Caires Taylor, about underwater installations such as the Volkswagen Beetle, created to become the basis for future coral reefs. Not far from the coast of Mexico there is even a whole underwater museum of the author's works. Moreover, it is constantly updated with new sculptures. For example, recently there appeared "new things" with the names The Last Supper, Listener and Phoenix.
The work of the Last Supper is a table carved out of stone, on which stands a large bowl with stone fruits alternating with stone pomegranates. And on two plates, located next to each other, there are half-eaten fish. The author claims that this sculpture symbolizes overfishing, which is gradually destroying the ocean.
Sculpture The Listener depicts a human figure created from many elements similar to the ear. Inside this work is a hard drive that records the sounds of the ocean, picked up by a variety of built-in microphones.
The Phoenix figure depicts a girl with wings made of material that filters water, trapping substances harmful to the environment, toxins. This work symbolizes the rebirth of the ocean, which will invariably occur after Humanity realizes the enormous damage it causes to nature and stops doing it.
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