Jason deCaires Taylor's work is absolutely captivating. I was just browsing sculptors and happened to come across him and could not take my eyes off of his work. He creates his underwater sculptures above water and then takes them down below the surface and attached them somehow. He does this to create artificial reefs. Many natural reefs are dying and cannot support the marine ecosystem, so artificial reefs are created to help the natural ones and that is why he puts them down there.
The underwater sculptures remind of maybe Atlantis or some other lost world. The humans, well sculptures look like ghosts, like maybe a huge tsunami ran over the town, and drowned them instantly.
The land sculptures remind me of a little town called Pompei. It was a town in Italy in 79 AD that was completely buried because of a volcano that erupted and covered the entire town in ash. The ash covered the residents as well and froze them in place. The town was lost for about 1,600 years until it was discovered by accident. His sculptures remind me of the ashen corpses in that town. It is absolutely fascinating.
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