For 20 Years, This Artist Has Been Placing Stunning Sculptures Beneath The Ocean That Support Marine Life (20 New Pics)

From one of the most remote places on Earth, a new Siren rises.

The Solomon Siren tells the story of climate activist Gladys Habu Bartlett, whose ancestral island of Kale in the Solomon Islands has disappeared beneath rising seas. Modelled on Gladys, the sculpture stands as a memorial to a lost landscape and a powerful reminder of the communities already living with the impacts of climate change.

Inscribed with dates marking the island’s disappearance and future sea-level projections, the work transforms climate data into a deeply human story. Installed in the intertidal zone, it is designed to become part of the environment itself, providing habitat for seabirds and marine life as it evolves over time.

Like the mythical sirens that warned of hidden dangers, The Solomon Siren is a quiet but urgent call to remember what has been lost—and to consider the coastlines around the world that may follow.

Cast from from local children in Lanzarote, the work aims to convey the fragile future we are creating for our children generations to come.

A fire coral, growing on “Man on Fire” Mexico. This “coral” species is similar to hard coral, but actually belongs to the family of Hydra / Hydrozoans and is therefore related to jellyfish.

One day we will all return to the sea.

Standing quietly at the bottom of the sea - “Silent Evolution.” Cancun, Mexico.

Installed on the 14th of October 2025, Ocean Gaia is a monumental underwater sculpture resting 5 metres beneath the surface off the island of Tokunoshima, Japan. Weighing over 45 tons and spanning 5.5 metres in width, the work features a serene large-scale portrait of the renowned Japanese model Kiko Mizuhara. It is the first underwater sculpture ever installed in Japan.

Set close to shore and embedded within the fringing reef, the sculpture is perforated with openings around its edges to invite marine life inside, transforming it into both artwork and habitat. Its gently swirling contours echo the intricate sand circles crafted by the Japanese white-spotted pufferfish (Torquigener albomaculosus), native to these waters and the rising peaks and valleys of the nearby mountain range.

In recent years, many of Japan’s younger generations have left the islands for larger cities. This work seeks to inspire renewed cultural interest and deeper connection among local youth — a new gateway to the sea. Ocean Gaia envisions the sea as a vast maternal force that breathes, renews, and heals. Drawing from the myth of Gaia, the primordial mother, the work reflects on the ocean as origin and consciousness, the source from which all life emerged. It speaks to interconnection and reverence, a reminder that the ocean is not apart from us, but an entity on which we are entirely dependent.

It is hoped that when visited, the piece evokes a deep, instinctive memory of being held within water — a quiet meditation on creation, fertility, and the ocean as the original womb of life.