Mission Blue

Sylvia Earle is a woman who has spent her life exploring the ocean and fighting to protect it . Neither of Earle’s parents attended college, but they instilled a love of nature in their daughter at an early age. She recalled spending hours by the pond in her backyard, filling jars with fish and tadpoles, recording her observations in notebooks. when Sylvia Earle was 13 and her interest turned to Gulf Coast wildlife. An excellent student, Earle graduated high school at 16. She earned a scholarship to Florida State University, where she studied botany and graduated at 19. She also became certified as a SCUBA diver at this time, to study ocean plant life firsthand.  Sylvia Earle wanted to make a career out of her passion，She fell in love with the ocean's vastness and the incredible diversity of life she encountered there. These experiences deepened her passion for marine biology and inspired her to dedicate her life to exploring and protecting the ocean. 

I admire such scientists very much. They are the role models of excellent women. When I was creating my work, I researched and searched for many photos of Sylvia Earle at work. She always wore a diving suit and goggles. This is because She has spent more than 7,000 hours underwater exploring the ocean and studying its inhabitants and has even set world records for deep-sea diving! I was attracted by a picture. She was in a spherical deep-sea work cabin, observing the seabed through the window. The shell of the work cabin was covered with corals. Various corals were very beautiful, and small fish were hiding and swimming among them. This picture moved me. The scientist seemed to be integrated with the seabed. She quietly looked at the seabed scenery outside the window, and the seabed creatures surrounded her. What a harmonious world. So, I chose this picture to start my creation.

Through the survey work of scientists, we see the truth of the underwater world, which is interesting and magical. Below the diving work cabin in the picture is a sea eel, because her dissertation focused on the behavior of eels and the electric fields they generate, allowing her to conduct research and participate in deep-sea diving expeditions. The back of a diver in the upper left corner of the picture is also a portrayal of the work of scientists. The picture is dominated by blue, because this is the color of the ocean, and blue is also my favorite color. The corals are colorful. I tried abstract expression to make the underwater world look unpredictable and used line drawing to reflect the agility of the sea water. The picture is beautiful and has a mysterious atmosphere.