It is the Europe’s first underwater museum. Its focus is on climate change, conversation and migration. More than 200 human sculptures are 50 feet underwater at the Museo Atlantico. The Raft of Lampedusa installation pays tribute to the refugee crisis. Artist Jason Taylor made the art from eco-friendly material to attract and host animal and plant life. Barracudas and Octopuses are often seen near the artwork. The museum is open now for scuba divers and snorkelers.
This cement of sculpture of refugees is heading to the bottom of the ocean. The Raft of Lampedusa sits 46 feet underwater off coast of the Spain’s Canary Islands. It’s a part of new underwater museum call Museo Atlantico. The sculpture is part art installation and part artificial reef by artist Jason DeCaires Taylor. The Artist – Jason DeCaires Taylor says about the artwork museum, the artwork is not intended as a honor or memorial to the many lives lost but as a bare reminder of the collective responsibility our now universal community.
In a couple thousand years, future archaeologists are going to have so many questions about this. I hope they leave something down there, a tablet maybe, they could explain what happened. Maybe they could learn from our mistakes but here is a fact that humans don't learn from their mistakes centuries has shown that. But if we leave something to explain these we'd show that there's nothing new under the sun. Maybe there could be a time when we finally realize that war changes nothing.
Don't let pessimism rule the world. If we want change, if we want there to be good in this world, then we have to work for it. This war and all wars, will someday end. If we leave something like a Rosetta stone or something like that with different languages, maybe they will be able to identify the message. There is another possible option that they will think a volcano erupted and solidified these refuges as they were attempting to escape the inferno They'll conclude that there was an underwater Medusa.
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