MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE
ASHER JAY, ARTIST AND NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC EXPLORER
365 Mixed Media Plastic Bottles
Immersive Soundscape Installation
Ca. 10 Ft x 15 Ft x 25 Ft
Jay was inspired to create this work by Sting’s song “Message in a Bottle,” which she heard during a beach clean-up. 365 Bottles, each otherwise a piece of trash, one for each day that it takes for the earth to revolve around the sun --- a revolution of bottles to seed a revolution of change. Personalized messages are written and “sound--scaped” into the installation’s ambient environment to create a “bait ball” of voices from celebrities, scientists, and conservationists, united to make an ocean of difference.
Exhibit currently on display in Times Square, New York City at National Geographic Encounter, 226 W 44th St, New York, NY 10036.
Photographed by Dar Riser, Sara Snyder, AJ Ferrer.
Post Production by Asher Jay.