Artist behind world’s first underwater sculpture park locates submerged forest

Unveiling his latest sub-aquatic project, the artist behind the
world’s first underwater sculpture park has located a magnificent submerged
forest off the shore of Pernera beach in Ayia Napa, Cyprus. There are 93
sculptures in Cyprus‘ Museum of Underwater Sculpture (Musan), which cost €1
million ($1.1 million) to build.

As part of the artwork, Taylor intends to bring attention to
“rewilding our natural spaces” as well as “reforesting areas of
barren habitat.” Taylor said that he tried to instill as many references
to climate change as he could.

A crane lowered the sculptures, which were
composed of inert pH neutral materials that attract marine life and were
positioned at varying depths so that the biodiversity of the region might be
“enriched” by their presence over time

Taylor said that They’re meant to let natural growth
settle on the substrate. On each of the sculptures’ heads, which contain very
intricate habitat regions, he could already detect a thin layer of algae. They
were also teeming with tiny young fish.

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As a result of the global outbreak, Taylor spent two to three
years working on Musan, which was originally set to debut last year. They
started building the projrct in March last year. They faced a lot of
difficulties in movement and assembling of materials.

On land, the museum has an entry on Pernera
Beach, which leads to an entrance with a floating platform that goes down to
the underwater sculptures. Both Divers and snorkelers enthusiasts
can enjoy Musan, which Taylor describes as some of the greatest visibility he
has ever seen. He mentions that it is more of a temperate area than a tropical
area. Hence, it will attract numerous species of marine life.

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In one of the sculptures, a desolate stretch of sand in the
Mediterranean Sea, the world’s most overfished sea, can be seen. It’s supposed
to communicate the idea that we need to pay close attention to these protected
areas and speak about regulating them in a tighter manner.

Musan is a junction between the department of Fisheries and Marine
research, the Ayia Napa municipality and the Ministry of tourism.

The sunken museum will be a live ocular and ecological experience,
that will include a combination of art and nature and also the progress with
time. The director of the department of Fisheries and Marine Research , Marina
Argyrou was at the launch of the project where he stated that Musan will bring
people closer to the Marine environment and people will be more concerned about
our marine ecosystem.

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The tickets to the museum can be booked through local dive centers.
Taylor’s main work is to promote the conservation of ocean and to call
attention on the impact of climate change.

At present Taylor is working on new exhibits for Australia’s
Museum of Underwater Art in Townsville, northern Queensland located on the Great
Barrier Reef, more than half of its corals have been lost in the last 20 years.

He also said that he has been talking to the Grenadian government
about the chance of creating a new underwater installation on the same island
where his first project was launched, which was in 2006. He set afloat an
underwater museum which had six portrait sculptures weighing about 10tons in
France earlier this year near Cannes