Epilogue

An underwater immersive tour of this project build confidence that will charge me up to take up challenges and helped me to figure out my interests that evokes my skills to develop the experience heavy work/project, this is what reflects me in my work, making an identity a trademark that not just show what you did but while looking at those projects it just gives you the essence of you in that work.

I have this tendency to immerse myself completely in whatever I take up as a project or a challenge, never thinking of what will be the result but trying my best to achieve the best. Likewise, this project had taken it all, I have tried to achieve the best in and from this project, something that had always fascinated me, attracted me towards its beautiful creation but never got a chance to visit any, something as magical as a world of fairies and has always attracted tourists from vast lands to visit and witness the beauty of its aesthetic appearance, but what is it?

Well, I was talking about “Coral Reefs” and my topic for this project is “Depletion Of Coals”

In this project I aimed to provide an awareness to the urban youth about the bleaching of corals and how we humans have invaded their ecosystems by becoming the cause of bleaching, I have gone through a thorough research to understand the details of its depletion and how corals are playing the role of their existence in this world, what are they giving us, why are they even important to the world, all these questions have been answered in this project, research and findings lead me towards a direction where I have made connections through Native stories of different communities living near corals and understanding about there cultural aspects, that had helped me to develop my concept in relation to human comparison and contrasting significance with corals, with these cultural aspects and aesthetic values of the corals helped me to develop statements that define my target for this project, In my precedence study i found most of the people are constructing ways to grow or latch new corals on artificial structures or making physical art that represent the happenings to corals, while all of these studies what I found was lacking is the Human correlation with corals, to understand the human correlationIi went through culutral aspects and native practises also, how these corals are beneficial for humans. Corals have different utilities in terms of regulating the Co2 level in the ocean to retain balance in the ecosystem in waters as well as land because 80% of the oxygen that we breathe comes from oceans.

I found corals are utilized to develop medicines for some of the deathly diseases and provide economic value as well as a livelihood to locals in a country. Now see corals are a natural resource a resource that is complex in its structure and known to be existing for 400 million years something as ancient and resourceful must be conserved at any cost. My approach was to aware the urban youth who are the visitors, users of harmful products, and the new generation of this

country, they must be educated about the resourcefulness of corals, I tried to initiate guilt feeling through my installation where you first experienced the beauty of corals but how we come up to the bleached version of their lives through our steps. How will you take a step to help them to retain their beauty for more years and let the upcoming generation witness the beauty of the corals? We can take a step forward by taking action, being part of organizations, and spreading the word in the world to save “The City of Underwater”.

I just want to state how human greed has taken away the natural environment, not just the corals but the recent meltdown of glaciers, burning fires, degradation of forests, development programs over jungles, and many more..... We are populating, increasing, advancing, and growing but at what cost? Are we aware of what is losing behind, are we aware of how the world is balanced, and are we aware of the life they share? We have to take a step forward it’s just now or never.