“Large Manta” (2004) by Colleen Flanigan
Media: Steel
Dimensions: 5m x 5 m x 4m
After constructing and welding the steel structure for this sea scuplture on land, Flanigan and her fellow team members suited up, attached floats to the sculpture, and swam out with it to the reef; then they removed the floats and submerged the piece 20 feet below the surface to the seafloor. Over the next week, Flanigan spent hours underwater wiring baby coral fragments to the steel, where, once electrified, they would grow more rapidly.