{"id":942,"date":"2014-09-17T19:12:03","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T19:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rbknrbkn.com\/workandprogress\/?p=942"},"modified":"2014-09-18T01:13:41","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T01:13:41","slug":"shipwrecks-as-an-ecological-medium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbknrbkn.com\/workandprogress\/?p=942","title":{"rendered":"Shipwrecks as an Ecological Medium"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was tasked to use the subject of shipwrecks as a framework to produce a call for works of art, as well as design a work of art that fulfills said call.<\/p>\n

A shipwreck can be a vessel of ideas to\u00a0many domains. To begin with, there is the obvious historical value of it as an artifact of a certain event, be it a battle or a change in geological forms. Before starting anything, I felt\u00a0that it is important to first have an idea about all the possible paths from which I can approach the concept\u00a0of a shipwreck.<\/p>\n

\"shipwreck!\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Up to this point, the environmental aspect of shipwrecks was a largely negative one in my mind, mainly\u00a0because of their agency in cases of oil spills. To counter that,\u00a0I searched for specific cases in which a shipwreck had some positive environmental effects. In one particular case, the cargo ship\u00a0Adolphus Busch<\/b><\/i>, which sank on the cost of Florida in 1998, was not salvaged but instead was used to cultivate colonies of reef.<\/p>\n

This set me into the course of thinking of shipwrecks as a recreational, environmental\u00a0space, that can be ecologically manipulated to aesthetic and environmental benefits. After all,\u00a0sunken\u00a0ships have always been\u00a0important recreational diving spots. \u00a0In one particular case, the naval ship\u00a0Thistlegorm<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>(pictured above),\u00a0<\/em>a naval ship that sunk during a\u00a0maneuver in WWII in the Red Sea, was not salvaged upon discovery, but marketed\u00a0as a diving spot instead.<\/p>\n

\"moreshipwrecks!\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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My main driving question is what makes a\u00a0sunken ship ecologically unique to engender reef growth, and by extension, is there such a thing as a shipwreck ecology separate from that of the ocean floor?<\/p>\n

In addition, in terms of the work of art which I have to define and\u00a0conceive to a level, what kind of restrictions does this line of thinking introduce? For instance, it has to have some sort of environmental\u00a0resilience: it has to withstand the elements and chemistry of the ocean.<\/p>\n

The closest domains\u00a0I found to what I have in mind are works of bio-art and environmental art, which is my second research subject after the basic ecology of shipwrecks in the context of this project.<\/p>\n

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