Swimming in the Deep Sky 

 
<sub>The sea is one of the most sensitive and vulnerable to climate change. Although the Deep Sea plays a significant role in climate change mitigation and its biodiversity changes very quickly as soon as available resources from the surface waters are modified we don’t know much about the sea. And there is a severe disconnection between the public and the sea. So, to minimize this gap, I thought learning about animals could be the first step for people to appreciate nature’s value and understand how we humans are part of nature.

In this project, “Swimming in the Deep Sky,” I made flags of deep-sea creatures, most of which have a transparent body and survived in a harsh environment using bioluminescence from their bodies. I used the sky as the deep sea, making invisible visible
to show the beauty of the biodiversity in the deep-sea, and hopefully, fill in the gaps between people’s insensitivity to the loss of biodiversity and the genuine understanding of nature. For the materials, I used mirrored paper that reflected the surroundings, and some parts of their body gradually disappeared by the time blending with the sky. Eventually, the animals engraved on the flags vanished without a trace, leaving only the transparent flags. Near the flags, I put flyers that contained images of the deep-sea animals and quotes that explained how they are susceptible to climate change.</sub>