Underwater sculpture Jason de Kera Taylor

When the public is the last time I heard about artist Jason de Coeur Taylor, he flooded and filled with cement off the coast of Mexico 8-ton Volkswagen Beetle to create artificial coral reefs. The car is not the only thing de Coeur Taylor drowned in the ocean: over the past few years, he has built in the Gulf of Mexico at a depth of approximately 8 meters, a Park of sculptures.

And yet, Coeur de Taylor mounted underwater sculptures off the coast of Grenada, and I say that as soon as he was immersed under water objects, colorful corals, sea stars and algae immediately colonized them, creating a unique and sometimes eerie thickets, especially on mannequins.



Sculptures of cement have two functions: they provide a surface on which can grow corals, sponges and other marine organisms, and they attract the attention of divers, distracting them from some of the more sensitive and fragile underwater plants. But why are corals so actively inhabit statues made of cement? Really there's nothing they can find at the bottom of the ocean? The problem is that most of the bottom of the ocean is soft and sandy. Only about 10-15 percent of the bottom is suitable for it appeared in coral reefs.



Coeur de Taylor creates an optimal environment — cement surface, and coral reefs serve as its decoration, adding bright colors and interesting shapes are simple statues. Water creates the effect of a magnifying glass, it refracts the light and is encrusted with coral sculptures look very different if viewed from different angles.

The sculpture Park in Grenada to see the beauty of the works de Kera Taylor can personally even novice divers. There are divers consider a group of statues in the form of human bodies located at a depth of about 5 meters. They are completely covered with brightly coloured corals, sponges and sea urchins. Sculptures are overgrown so much that it is rather similar to psychedelic abstraction, than of human figures.

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