We’ve featured artist Jason deCaires Taylor before on Earth Art Bainbridge: his installation, The Rising Tide, in the river Thames was featured in the Totally Thames Festival in 2015.
Another of his works, Anthropocene, is a lifesize replica of a Volkswagon Beetle installed at 8m depth in the ocean waters near Cancun, Mexico. It is designed to attract crustaceans so eventually, the artist hopes it will become part of the living ocean.
This work explores “the significant impact humans have had on our planet’s ecosystems and the subsequent effect to future generations.”
It is particularly relevant with the news of a new study, published January 8 in the journal Science, declaring that our human impact has indeed pushed our planet into a new geological era: the Anthropocene. While not a formal declaration of the new era, this study indicates that “the changes are as big as those that happened at the end of the last ice age.”
For more images of Jason deCaires Taylor’s Anthropocene sculpture, check out his web site.
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