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"For this last piece, I really focused on climate change. It shows this transition from bleaching to healthy, or healthy to bleaching, whichever way you want to look at it."
"For this last piece, I really focused on climate change. It shows this transition from bleaching to healthy, or healthy to bleaching, whichever way you want to look at it."
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Our Changing Seas III continues to explore the theme of Mattison's earlier work, "highlighting the vibrancy of coral reefs while simultaneously highlighting the threats that they face."
Arthur Evans
Our Changing Seas III continues to explore the theme of Mattison's earlier work, "highlighting the vibrancy of coral reefs while simultaneously highlighting the threats that they face."
Arthur Evans
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Coral bleaching is a result of stressed-out polyps, usually after changes in water conditions. Global warming and ocean acidification are major threats.
Arthur Evans
Coral bleaching is a result of stressed-out polyps, usually after changes in water conditions. Global warming and ocean acidification are major threats.
Arthur Evans
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Mattison installing Our Changing Seas III at the Tang Museum. "I’d love to do more pieces that have this light, airy, almost ominous cloudlike pattern going on. ... There’s something really powerful in the spiral shape, and how it evokes …
Arthur Evans
Mattison installing Our Changing Seas III at the Tang Museum. "I’d love to do more pieces that have this light, airy, almost ominous cloudlike pattern going on. ... There’s something really powerful in the spiral shape, and how it evokes …
Arthur Evans
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The second piece of Our Changing Seas, now at the oceonography center of Nova Southeastern University, is built as a "360 degree transition from healthy to degraded coral reef and back again, showing the viewers the full picture and suggesting …
Courtney Mattison
The second piece of Our Changing Seas, now at the oceonography center of Nova Southeastern University, is built as a "360 degree transition from healthy to degraded coral reef and back again, showing the viewers the full picture and suggesting …
Courtney Mattison
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"Most of my training is in marine biology. ... I was always sort of an artsy kid," Mattison says. "But the science is what really drew me in."
Courtney Mattison
"Most of my training is in marine biology. ... I was always sort of an artsy kid," Mattison says. "But the science is what really drew me in."
Courtney Mattison
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The first installation of Our Changing Seas, a whopping 1,500 pounds and 15 feet tall, is meant to immerse to viewer in a new environment.
Derek Parks
The first installation of Our Changing Seas, a whopping 1,500 pounds and 15 feet tall, is meant to immerse to viewer in a new environment.
Derek Parks
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"I know the taxonomy of most of the things that I build, but I do combine species, or create fantastical versions of species," Mattison says. "The art is supposed to inspire people to get curious."
Derek Parks
"I know the taxonomy of most of the things that I build, but I do combine species, or create fantastical versions of species," Mattison says. "The art is supposed to inspire people to get curious."
Derek Parks
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“Sometimes I’ll feel like I’m completely making up a new species ... Then I’ll go diving and I’ll see something that looks a lot like it, this thing that I totally made up. The ocean always wins in that sense."
Derek Parks
“Sometimes I’ll feel like I’m completely making up a new species ... Then I’ll go diving and I’ll see something that looks a lot like it, this thing that I totally made up. The ocean always wins in that sense."
Derek Parks
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A small sculpture by Mattison standards — “basically the size of a large pizza” — Coral Triangle depicts one of the ocean's "hope spots." This one is a patch of the Western Pacific thought to be the most biodiverse marine …
Courtney Mattison
A small sculpture by Mattison standards — “basically the size of a large pizza” — Coral Triangle depicts one of the ocean's "hope spots." This one is a patch of the Western Pacific thought to be the most biodiverse marine …
Courtney Mattison
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"I really hope I’m not building monuments to reefs, memorials of their demise. I would really like these to be celebrations of them."
Courtney Mattison
"I really hope I’m not building monuments to reefs, memorials of their demise. I would really like these to be celebrations of them."
Courtney Mattison