Latest Jason deCaires Taylor News

The first phase of a new ambitious underwater project in Mexico is currently underway, placed within the National Marine Park of Cancun, Isla Mujeres and Nisuc. The installations, designed to form artificial reef structures, will encompass a monumental body of work consisting of over 400 figurative pieces.
Drawing on various influences, the works will include both contemporay and Mayan narratives and develop the use of live propagated coral within the structures. The final piece will be entitled: La Evolución Silenciosa (The silent evolution).

Call for submissions:
Jason has just completed his latest work The El Archivero de los Sueños Perdidos (The archive of lost dreams) which depicts an underwater archive, maintained by a male registrar. The archive is a collection of messages in bottles brought together by the natural forces of the ocean. The collector is collating the individual bottles and categorising the contents according to the nature of each message - fear, hope, loss, or belonging. Which is hoped, will document current values and aspirations for future generations to discover.

Jason is now collecting messages to permanently seal inside the bottles. In you have a message of any kind, be it - a dream, a hope, a secret, a fear, please write it down on a piece of paper 10cm x 20cm in either a text or illustration and send to:
Jason deCaires Taylor
Studio A007
The Chocolate Factory
5 Clarendon Rd
London N22 6XJ
UK

All submissions must be received by the 20th of June 2009.
Some of the messages may be published, please indicate on the outside of the paper if you would like it to remain private.