Ocean Tunnel
Burning Man 2018
A Collaborative Public Art Display Created for Burning Man Festival
Inside a 200-ft-long train of tunnels, canvas walls are painted with murals of marine life.
On one end, a beautiful, blue, pristine ocean is filled with sailfish, tuna, and mackerel; continuing through, fish become smaller and sparser, the ocean greener and murkier. A thick curtain of jellyfish tentacles hangs from the ceiling of the final section - the whole ocean has become a gelatinous soup.Ocean Tunnel is intended to show how the ocean is evolving - how climate change and unsustainable fishing practices degrade ocean ecosystems.
Created by many artists, scientists, and concerned citizens, it also represents humanity's ability to collectively re-imagine, engage with, and reckon with global change. This oceanographic installation has been installed at Burning Man, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, and at the Illges Gallery at the University of Georgia.
