Olver Jeffers’ ‘Life at Sea’ exhibit exhibited a lot less when it started than it does now. In the Education Gallery at the Brooklyn Museum the walls were painted to suggest being in the ocean, under water, waiting for visitors—mainly children—to populate it with fish and other creatures of their own devising.
Jeffers makes the point that while the exhibit only symbolically repopulates and enriches the ocean, real action by people can bring about environmental change. Here’s his introduction to the exhibit.
A variety of workstations around the room are equipped with the means of production, and there’s a shelf of books for ideas as well—along with some crepe-paper corals.
And, a welcoming octopus…
