tribute to the ocean

Coral Guardian, a non-profit dedicated to coral reef conservation, has developped this unerwater museum in a secret spot in order to let the local biodiversity take its rights back.

This video has a strong meaning, showing marine life beauty and how important it is to us.

Underwater, a memorial as a memory of human on earth appeared, reminding everyone that we are part of the global ecosystem.
It was placed there after the destruction of the coral reefs surrounding by human carelessness (dynamite fishing, overfishing...).

This memorial is a living artwork masterpiece mixing art and marine conservation. It represents the timescape notion of our living on this blue planet. Biological life constantly changing faces the frozen minerals in time.
It is also the terrestrial heaviness and underwater lightness, symmetry and disorder, natural shaping and human made sculpture.

This artistic project was set up as part of a coral reef restoration program. The goal is to push people to think about the meaning of this artwork and let their reflexion answer.
The structure is entirely made of local marble and fossilized stones.

www.coralguardian.org

Text:
Origin of all life,
Your world of silence is about to speak

You give life to rock and water
And in any surface you cover

In nightmares, in dreams,

You have always inspired me

Guided me to my purest humanity

The water, The salt
That flows through my blood
Cristal reminder of who I am,
Of what we are made of
And where we are from

But yet,
Let me listen, closely, to your timeless knowledge

Mysterious, fragile,
you are oxygen;
you are life, full of fear,
fascinating, surprising,
immense, deep.

Keeper of our peace,
Guardian of our spirituality

We are meant to be together
And I need to hear your message

If, in the ocean, I am just a drop
All together, we are the ocean

Before that time comes
and I know that the sands of time are running low

Let me tell you

We humans are capable of the best
We humans, sons and daughters of the water,
We say, in a common dream:
Thank you