Death at Seaworld

This is a recent collage featuring the subject of cetaceans in captivity.

I obtained official Seaworld postcards, flags and stamps and used them with images of books and films that feature the not-so-well-known side of the captivity industry.

A fall from freedom examines how the corporate giant, Seaworld, obtained a lot of their 'stock'.

Death at Seaworld is a recently released book on just how Seaworld manages it's assets, for ultimately, that is what the captive cetaceans are.

The Seaworld products on the collage give a hint at the commercial side of what the corporate giant does.  This is balanced with the covers of the above productions showing the viewer that there is another side to the activities of any marine park.  There is also a photograph of an Orca swimming free in the ocean beside a sticker which boldly states "Shamu's Happy Harbor".

The work is surrounded by a quote from Jacques Coustea.  It says simply, No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea, and no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or those marine lands can be considered normal"