This mural signifies the importance of how the ocean’s marine life is such a precious gift to humanity and that it needs to be protected. HULA’s murals, Lumens is portrayed as a woman with her eyes closed and a jellyfish flowing next to her while her hand is raised up beside it. HULA’s medium to convey his art was artificial reefs, using concrete and steel in hopes to replicate an environment for marine life to grow. For this project, HULA made his own materials and eco-friendly pigment sticks. In the interview Street Artists Learns Freediving to Paint Underwater on Artificial Reefs by Jessica Stewart, HULA stated “Combining both my art and environmental passions happened almost by accident at first, when I started creating murals along ocean walls. I always had underlying messages of sustainability and awareness, but this was the first concept I could literally combine these two aspects of my life influences into one. Every project since then has seamlessly integrated both values into their own unique stories naturally”. HULA’s passion for environmental reform has been noticed by the public, being most notable for painting on icebergs of indigenous local woman to raise awareness of global warming and the effects it has on the native people living near those environments at risk. The warmer climate has led to the decline of oxygen resulting in the absence of species due to the lack of oxygen. Without oxygen, coral reefs are susceptible to the increasing levels of acidification, which contribute to the increasing levels of acidification will which has “impact on coral physiology (calcification rates, ability to repair tissues and growth), behavior (feeding rate), reproduction (early life-stage survival, timing of spawning), weaken calcified structures, and alter coral stress-response mechanisms.” HULA exhibits his passion for helping his home state of Hawai’i to protect and help the marine life that has an impact on the islands. In Breath, a woman with her eyes closed is facing towards the audience with bubbles coming out of her mouth. And Buried, is an eye covered by sand in the seafloor, with a depiction of one eye staring out, towards the surface of the water. Jacapo Prisco, writer for CNN, described HULA’s paintings in his article Artist Sean Yoro Paints Stunning Underwater Murals. Prisco states, “The first, titled ‘Lumens,’ … and is meant to capture the moment he discovered how much beauty and magic the ocean holds, as well as the fragile state in which it currently is. The second, ‘Breath,’... is linked to the discovery of freediving, an activity that Yoro says requires as much control of the lungs as of the mind. The third, ‘Buried,’ is the image of an eye, symbolizing the fragility of the life that lives in the oceans today. The figure is being covered by the sand, representing the need to protect what is left before it's too late”. The message possibly conveys a powerful suggestion of awareness, in a symbolic manner, to keep eyes open on the consequences of environmental extinction, perseverance, and being buried in the culpability of human actions.
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