"Cá"
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Provided by: Sea Walls|Published on: April 27, 2021
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Synopsis
- This mural in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, calls attention to the harms of unsustainable and polluting industrial fishing practices on marine ecosystems.
Subjects: Visual and Performing Arts
Authors: Aaron Glasson, Celeste Byers
Region: Asia
Languages: English
Teaching Materials
Positives
- The unsettling, wrinkly hand and human-faced fish make for a jarring first impression that will captivate students.
- The spiky black sea urchins showcase the ecosystem disruptions occurring due to the pollution from fish farming and unsustainable fishing practices.
Additional Prerequisites
- Cá means "fish" in Vietnamese.
- Students might benefit from researching the imbalance that fish farms have created in the marine ecosystem, causing many sea urchins to grow on the coral reefs.
- For more information, watch this video (7 minutes, 28 seconds) about the creation of this mural.
Differentiation
- This could be a hook for biology students to research more about the coral reefs in Vietnam and the impacts of overfishing and fish farms on marine ecosystems.
- In art class, students can analyze this mural using some of the following questions:
- Why did the artists choose to give a human face to the fish?
- Are the sea urchins properly scaled? Why or why not? What impression does that give to the viewer?
- Does the swimming pool next to the mural change how one perceives this mural?
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About the Partner Provider
PangeaSeed Foundation
PangeaSeed Foundation is a globally engaged nonprofit organization acting at the intersection of culture and environmentalism to further the conservation of our oceans. Its mission is to empower individuals and communities to create meaningful environmental change for the oceans by raising public awareness of critical environmental issues through SCIENCE, EDUCATION, and ARTIVISM (S.E.A.). Through their groundbreaking Sea Walls: Artists for Oceans public art program, PangeaSeed Foundation has created over 400 educational ocean advocacy murals in 17 countries, bringing the ocean into streets across the globe.
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