Honoring Our Oceans 《自由》致敬海洋

Artists and writers have long been fascinated by the strength and spirit of the Earth’s oceans, mixing and contributing to its mystique with their fantasies perceptions while striving to remain aware of its paradoxical fragility. Recently, Yi Zhou Studio has released a video piece inspired by the work of UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) with their Marine World Heritage Program. ‘Freedom’, as a representation of Yi Zhou’s own perception of the marine world, features her own voiceover work, and brings to the screen the depth of the seas and depictions of the wealth of living creatures therein. The program, which aims to explore, protect and conserve some of the most extraordinary marine sites in the world, has named 47 marine locations around the world as natural heritage sites, and thus under protection. The protection of marine sites on UNESCO’s World Heritage List is one of the causes promoted by The Maker, Yi Zhou Studio’s online magazine. For The Maker, oceanic creatures’ disappearance is an irreversible loss to humanity, and their protection is a huge responsibility of us all.

艺术家和作家们常常被海洋的强大与无垠所折服，他们对海洋产生的幻想更为其增添了一丝神秘之感，但是，他们又能清楚地意识到海洋极具脆弱性的另一面。近日，周依工作室发布了公益视频短片《自由》，灵感来源于联合国教科文组织海洋世界遗产保护项目。《自由》由周依担任配音工作，在屏幕上深度呈现了海洋的奥秘和海洋生物的丰富形态，表达了周依对海洋生命体的独特见解。海洋世界遗产保护项目的目的是为了探索、保护和保存全球47处被列为世界自然遗产的蓝色海域，这些海域拥有地球上最广阔美丽的海洋景观。保护UNESCO世界文化遗产名录下的海域是《TheMaker臆想》支持的三大项目之一。对《TheMaker臆想》乃至所有人来说，海洋生物的消失是人类不可挽回的损失，保护海洋生物是我们全人类共同的责任。