Fact 1: 80% of the earth's surface is water
Fact 2: The deepest part of the ocean, Marianas Trench is 6.9 miles deep
'The Oceans' by Robert Barton
There is a magical mysterious world beneath sea level and one which the majority of us will only see in photographs or on TV footage. There are those who scuba dive with a passion, my housemate being one and she explained to me that although they have an interest in sea life and in part seeing the seals or pretty fish swimming around what makes a dive more interesting are the objects which have sunk and rock formations that occur only underwater it all helps to create an underwater playground for divers. It is interesting then to see that artist Jason Taylor has used this environment to create a great installation on the sea bed in Grenada, West Indies. These sculptures are forever changing as they become shaped with tidal movement and other sea life attaching themselves to the surface. Set against the natural underwater landscape the shapes stand out yet the material they are made from, rusting and transforming, makes them blend it as if they have been naturally formed there and sat at the bottom of the sea since the beginning of time.
o be underwater takes many pieces of equipment, dive suits, fins, masks and most importantly the oxygen tank and regulators, it's not natural for humans to be underwater for more than a minute or two. So artist Leandro Erlich has created a great installation The Swimming Pool which simply makes you question how the people beneath the water can be there. You look closer and can see them in dry clothes, they move quickly and they remain there for longer than a few minutes without coming up for a breath of air. It is a great installation that questions a humans ability to remain underwater and how unnatural an environment it is for us. It puts you in a position where you can feel what it like to be dry whilst being able to look up through the water and to experience all this without a need to hold your breath.
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