Breath Below the Waves

Description

A diving helmet is designed to keep a person alive where breathing should be impossible. Placing a skull inside it changes the equipment from protection into evidence. Coral, tanks, tentacles, and mechanical fittings crowd around the face, suggesting years spent beneath the water until metal, bone, and reef became one strange relic. The image treats the ocean as a keeper of human ambition. The image can be read as a warning, an adventure emblem, or the remains of someone who refused to surface. Its humor is dark, but the deeper feeling is wonder at what the sea absorbs, transforms, and eventually claims as its own.