Black and white woodcut print, the whole work entitled Laut Adalah Kehidupan (The Sea is Life). We look up from the seabed towards boats on the surface, through shafts of sunlight which illuminate many diverse living beings and a profusion of descending garbage. The overall work is beautiful, but the juxtaposition is pointed.

The title of this work is ‘Laut Adalah Kehidupan’: The Sea is Life.

We should treasure that life – and ours may depend on it.
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#water #stewardship #StBenetsCam #OceanArt #PangrokSulap #LautAdalahKehidupan #sealife

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My interests in sealife & medieval history converge with the exhibition of woodcut prints by @pangroksulap in the beautiful space of #StBenetsCam, founded before the Norman conquest:
https://ecoevo.social/@AquaClaire/115496198724624363

Open daily 9-6, celebration & brief talk Tues 25Nov 5-6pm […]

Black and white woodcut print, the whole work entitled Ratapan Lautan (The Lament of the Sea). Swirling waters remind many viewers of Van Gogh, and pull together all the details described in the thread above.

This thought-provoking art raises weighty issues, but with joy in the making, the details, & the conversations that ensue. It's disturbing, but so beautiful!

What other aspects do you see?
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#RatapanLautan #PangrokSulap #StBenetsCam #MarineLife #seabed #BottomTrawling #OceanArt #SaveOurSeas

In this detail of the print, the fisherman in his boat is seen from below, amid swirling waters which emphasize his small size and fragility. We also see a skyscraper city, and a giant net being pulled up by a crane.

Rapacious extraction & heedless coastal construction leave a lone traditional fisherman casting his line in an empty sea.

Artwork by #PangrokSulap from #Malaysia. See it at the oldest building in #Cambridge, #StBenetsCam.
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Black-and-white artwork - a woodcut print. A large dolphin looks directly at the viewer, as two smaller dolphins swim happily above the vibrant reef below. What does the dolphin wish to tell us?

In another detail of the same artwork, a group of terrified fish are about to be caught in an enormous trawl net, into which all life is disappearing.

The dolphins invite you to look closely at the beauty and diversity of the ocean, and the current impact of man. On show now in the heart of Cambridge, 'Reflecting on the Sea': details above.

Open invitation to a reception on Thurs 25 Nov, 5-6pm […]

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Two large modern artworks hang in an ancient church, with arched Gothic windows behind and a font in the foreground. The artworks are black-and-white prints on canvas, both celebrating the beauty and diversity of sealife along with the manmade threats - of plastic and other pollution in the first; various forms of seabed destruction in the second. Atmospheric black and white photo, taken by the vicar after a harrowing day and a midnight hang: peace reigns.

Two powerful artworks by Pangrok Sulap are now on display in the beautiful space of St Bene't's in Cambridge:
https://www.stbenetschurch.org/laut
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#sealife #StBenetsCam #BottomTrawling #ocean #pollution #MarineConservation #PangrokSulap #IconicFishes #Cambridge