WEBVTT 1 00:00:24.958 --> 00:00:25.291 For me, 2 00:00:25.291 --> 00:00:29.462 this project widened my perception of the ocean. 3 00:00:29.462 --> 00:00:33.633 I had already been invited to do a project involving endangered marine animals 4 00:00:33.800 --> 00:00:35.268 and then I had the opportunity 5 00:00:35.268 --> 00:00:38.872 to realize the range of activities happening in the ocean, which we seldom see. 6 00:00:39.472 --> 00:00:42.175 Media rarely exposes these topics and with this project, 7 00:00:42.175 --> 00:00:45.512 I could see the complexities of issues behind what is happening. 8 00:00:45.512 --> 00:00:48.882 We have been blind to the piracy, the slavery. 9 00:00:48.915 --> 00:00:51.651 So, now we open our eyes a little more to these questions. 10 00:00:56.222 --> 00:00:59.793 When we go to the beach, we only see the good side of things, 11 00:00:59.893 --> 00:01:01.928 the natural beauty. 12 00:01:01.928 --> 00:01:06.800 We never imagined that there were so many things going wrong. 13 00:01:06.800 --> 00:01:10.703 Slavery on the high seas. 14 00:01:12.338 --> 00:01:16.976 After I got to know the story in the book by journalist, Ian Urbina, 15 00:01:17.977 --> 00:01:20.246 I paid much closer attention 16 00:01:20.947 --> 00:01:27.020 to the work Ian is doing in this fight. 17 00:01:27.020 --> 00:01:31.724 I didn't know how much wrongdoing was happening throughout the world, a world covered by a much bigger area of ocean than land. 18 00:01:31.724 --> 00:01:35.395 So many more things happen than we could ever imagine. 19 00:01:36.429 --> 00:01:39.732 In reality, there is piracy and slavery 20 00:01:40.333 --> 00:01:42.602 in the middle of 2022. We are still talking about slavery. 21 00:01:43.570 --> 00:01:51.244 It's a very important issue, to which we often don't pay as much attention as we should. 22 00:01:52.078 --> 00:01:54.814 I had no idea. I found out about all this 23 00:01:54.814 --> 00:01:58.852 after getting to know The Outlaw Ocean. 24 00:01:59.385 --> 00:02:02.288 Because when all of us from the countryside go to the beach, 25 00:02:02.288 --> 00:02:05.725 go to the coast just to hang out drinking beer, 26 00:02:06.326 --> 00:02:09.796 we can't imagine that a lot of sad things happen in this area, 27 00:02:10.797 --> 00:02:16.302 like slavery, labor abuses, the death of marine animals. 28 00:02:17.370 --> 00:02:21.174 We simply don't have that perception. 29 00:02:26.412 --> 00:02:27.981 Journalism, 30 00:02:27.981 --> 00:02:31.384 the people who do the reporting are in contact with this world. 31 00:02:32.085 --> 00:02:35.388 Journalists bring these issues to light in the media and spread the information, 32 00:02:35.388 --> 00:02:36.823 revealing what they saw. 33 00:02:36.823 --> 00:02:39.392 So, without them, maybe these issues wouldn't be where they have to be. 34 00:02:39.893 --> 00:02:42.462 It's a marriage. The artist, 35 00:02:42.629 --> 00:02:45.165 journalism, photographs.. 36 00:02:46.833 --> 00:02:50.136 All these components work together. 37 00:02:53.673 --> 00:02:56.509 This project has to reach the right people 38 00:02:56.509 --> 00:03:00.213 to increase the collaboration 39 00:03:01.047 --> 00:03:03.850 and reach a wider audience to have more strength. 40 00:03:05.084 --> 00:03:07.253 And with this larger presence, it will expand 41 00:03:07.921 --> 00:03:10.990 to a greater degree, the vision of graffiti, of the lawless ocean, 42 00:03:11.291 --> 00:03:13.927 and of the mural itself. 43 00:03:16.829 --> 00:03:19.065 For me, what I did, which is different in the project, 44 00:03:20.033 --> 00:03:21.401 is to create an awareness not only 45 00:03:21.401 --> 00:03:25.872 of the artist and journalism, but also of the people that visit the mural. It’s also about the people in contact 46 00:03:25.872 --> 00:03:28.141 with the art, the people passing by the mural, 47 00:03:28.141 --> 00:03:31.044 the people who want to know what's going on and about what this is. 48 00:03:31.077 --> 00:03:33.546 So it will touch more people. 49 00:03:33.546 --> 00:03:37.550 So, with art, we can sometimes express 50 00:03:37.550 --> 00:03:39.352 everything people want 51 00:03:39.586 --> 00:03:41.821 in a message through a drawing. 52 00:03:41.821 --> 00:03:45.858 So, we manage to reach both the elderly and a child, 53 00:03:45.858 --> 00:03:49.095 maybe with the same design, but with unique perceptions of different things. 54 00:03:49.095 --> 00:03:50.897 But we can reach everyone. 55 00:03:50.897 --> 00:03:53.166 Art gets a lot of attention 56 00:03:54.634 --> 00:03:56.269 of older people, children. 57 00:03:56.269 --> 00:04:00.406 It stimulates a curiosity 58 00:04:01.374 --> 00:04:04.510 to know why things are a certain way. 59 00:04:04.510 --> 00:04:10.883 Perhaps the person who is here in Estiva 60 00:04:10.883 --> 00:04:14.053 has never encountered graffiti and these maritime problems before. 61 00:04:14.487 --> 00:04:17.991 Maybe they will try to find out where it's happening, what the project is 62 00:04:17.991 --> 00:04:21.694 and they will find a link to the project through the QR CODE that will be here, where they will 63 00:04:22.562 --> 00:04:25.698 have access to everything that is happening and the material in the book. 64 00:04:26.065 --> 00:04:28.401 I think that's how you can connect with people more easily. 65 00:04:29.202 --> 00:04:33.539 What I did was to study the book a little, to know the information more in depth. 66 00:04:34.774 --> 00:04:37.677 I studied the history so I could portray it in my art. 67 00:04:37.977 --> 00:04:40.179 I wanted to communicate directly 68 00:04:40.880 --> 00:04:43.182 with people about the project, to 69 00:04:43.182 --> 00:04:45.885 try to reach whoever passes by and 70 00:04:45.885 --> 00:04:48.087 whoever is interested in the mural, 71 00:04:49.055 --> 00:04:51.090 and have an impact, 72 00:04:51.090 --> 00:04:54.794 just as learning the history of the project had an impact on me.