Introduction:

The ocean is a magnificent place that is slowly dying in front of our eyes because of the damages we (humans) cause.

A great, complex and beautiful ecosystem that we may no longer be able to see in 20 years the way it's seen today, a huge underwater population that is going to disappear if we don't help fixing the mistakes we've made in the past.

One specie dies and an entire population may die with it. Each specie depends on another in order to survive.

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Rationale:

I decided to present  through my artwork the upcoming underwater view we may have if we don't take on ourselves a certain responsibility for our actions and stop being disregard towards what we see.

As a diver, throughout the years I notice the changes and the deterioration that are appearing and I hope this artwork will make even a little change to help and rebuild what has been destroyed.

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The painting is an acrylic painting dispaying a diver painted in black to represent every human being no matter what's the gender, the race...

Both, enjoying the coral reef and being amazed by it's natural beauty and in the same time being ignorant about his boat, leaking oil into the sea and destroying the other half of the coral reef under it.

This leeds to the coral reef sculpture made of trash. 

We humans know how to enjoy the natural beauty that is around us but not always know how to preserve it.

Let's learn how to protect the nature that is so important and crucial for the well being of the planet and ourselves and not just enjoy it and consum its gifts without awarness.   

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materials:

For the sculpture-

The materials that were used for this artwork are the materials I have found underwater during each diving or walk on the beach.

Trash that people leaves behind them that I refuse leaving after seeing and sometimes I come back to the shore with a full netbag of trash that was left to roten in a place that just isn't suppose to suffer from our rubbish.

Plastic straws, trashbags, balloons, ropes, plastic bottles, lids, tires... all of them were used to build this art piece that is supposed to display a coral reef.

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