Two powerful artworks by Pangrok Sulap are now on display in the beautiful space of St Bene't's in Cambridge:
https://www.stbenetschurch.org/laut
📷 Revd Devin McLachlan
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#sealife #StBenetsCam #BottomTrawling #ocean #pollution #MarineConservation #PangrokSulap #IconicFishes #Cambridge
See ‘The Making of Ratapan Lautan’ on #MakerTube, 4min28:
https://makertube.net/w/qQiThe9QJ7rVhSe3B93SAT
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#PangrokSulap #Malaysia #BottomTrawling #OceanArt #ArtAndNature #EnvironmentalArt #ArtAndEcology #ArtAndNature #Sabah @pangroksulap
The dolphins invite us to look closely at the beauty and diversity of the ocean, and the current impact of man. On show now in the heart of Cambridge, 'Reflecting on the Sea': details above.
Open invitation to a reception [edit: and talk] on Thurs 25 Nov, 5-6pm:
https://www.stbenetschurch.org/events/reflecting-on-the-sea
#StBenetsCam #PangrokSulap #stewardship #BottomTrawling #ArtAndNature #Cambridge #Malaysia
These are dwarfed by the huge scale of new threats. Life amid the 3-dimensionality of a thriving habitat contrasts with the flattened desert & devastated seabed after the passage of a bottom trawl.
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#BottomTrawling #pipefish #seahorse #seadragon #BellowsFish #IconicFishes
Rapacious extraction & heedless coastal construction leave a lone traditional fisherman casting his line in an empty sea.
#OceanArt by #PangrokSulap from #Malaysia. Free to see at the oldest building in #Cambridge, #StBenetsCam.
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This thought-provoking art raises weighty issues, but with joy in the making, the details, & the conversations that ensue. It's disturbing, but so beautiful!
What other aspects do you see?
🧵 7/n
#RatapanLautan #PangrokSulap #StBenetsCam #MarineLife #seabed #BottomTrawling #OceanArt #SaveOurSeas
Tragedy & transformation; experience & insight; conversations in a fishing community. Read the Pangrok Sulap artists' statement:
https://www.iconicfishes.art/s/ArtistStatement.pdf
🧵 8/n
The earlier work highlights the diversity of both sealife and manmade pollution.
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#PangrokSulap #LautAdalahKehidupan #IconicFishes #pufferfish #seahorse #seal
Mankind has transformed the oceans in less than one human lifetime.
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#woodcut #printmaking #sealife #pollution #MarineLife #MarineConservation
The title of this work is ‘Laut Adalah Kehidupan’: The Sea is Life.
We should treasure that life – and ours may depend on it.
🧵 11/n
#water #stewardship #StBenetsCam #OceanArt #PangrokSulap #LautAdalahKehidupan #sealife
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