Mexico's No.1 tourist destination and one of the largest of its kind, The Cancun Underwater Museum with 400 life-size sculptures was formed two years ago. Some of the creative structures are modeled after real people. Artist Jason De Caire's Taylor who was the director of the museum himself sculpted the pieces.
The newly added cement figures to the art museum includes a VW Beetle-turned-lobster haven, which is meant to be a new home for the coral reef and other marine life.
The pH-neutral marine concrete allows algae to flourish so that the appearance of the sculpture can change overtime. The sculptures in the marine park also divert snorkelers and divers from delicate coral reef.
Around 750,000 people from all over the world visit Cancun to see the marine museum which provides a chance to get a closer glimpse at a natural coral reef and marine life.
Among the latest works by Taylor are "The Last Supper," a table set for two with plates of half-eaten fish and a centerpiece of apples and hand grenades. Its message: over-fishing is threatening many of the world's oceans.
Another, dubbed "Urban Reef," is a collection of architectural structures in a street scape. "Phoenix" depicts a woman with movable wings of purple gorgonian fan coral. It's the first kinetic sculpture in the museum. "The Listener" is a figure assembled entirely from casts of human ears. It's equipped with a special underwater listening device that records reef sounds.
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