On a sleek, low plinth in the National Gallery of Victoria, Alex Goad's artificial reef structure looks perfectly at home beside other modernist installations.
About 9,000km away, in the Maldives, clusters of the same modules sit on the sea floor off Summer Island. It's a satisfying proof-of-concept for Goad, an industrial designer who seems to sit somewhere between artist, inventor, environmentalist and lover of science. The visual effect is one of a three-dimensional mosaic on the waterline — a piece of public art that appears and disappears with the shifting tide.
Much depends on the conditions at each site, but in some harbour locations, encrusting layers of oysters have formed.
That's it more plastic in the ocean 🙌
imagine how much cheaper it'd be if we just didn't fuck it up in the first place?
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