Islands Abridged presents: Horizons of Sand and Water

Islands Abridged presents: Horizons of Sand and Water is an interactive exploration of the Philippines, its people, and how both has been shaped by its identity as an archipelagic and maritime nation. Wander around and ask the Butandings about Philippine maritime facts and explore the ocean floor to discover the colorful secrets that lie beneath the waves.

Ages 4 and up. For IOS and Desktop only.

Chester Mendoza

Name of school: La Granja, National High School.

Just like the scuba divers who shares the beauty of life in the ocean, my artwork also shares not just its beauty but also the importance of life in the ocean. My artwork shows all plant life and animals that live in the ocean and just like on land all living things has its purpose and importance. Based on scientific studies 50%-80% of oxygen on earth was produce from the ocean. This is possible through all drifting plants, algae and some bacteria that can photosynthesize. This oxygen was needed by all marine animals in the ocean to live and just like them plant life also need all marine animals to survive. This is a cycle that should continue and flourish in the ocean to maintain its richness and beauty. Without each of this things in the cycle every life in the ocean will die. A beautiful and bountiful marine life gives tons of benefits for us humans and other animals to survive. This shows that we humans are just a small part of something bigger and it’s up to each and everyone of us to protect it. Protecting the ocean means making it free from pollution like plastic pollution and illegal fishing that we humans are mainly responsible. On my part as an artist i make it my responsibility to educate all other people the importance of our oceans and how we can protect it through my art piece. I want everyone of us to realize how beautiful our oceans  if it is a healthy oceans.

"Exchange of Gratitude"

Kenneth G. Alebio

Name of school: Cebu Institute of Technology- University

70% of Earth's surface is covered with oceans and million species of animals lives in it. The ocean provides us with resources, foods and even sustain our daily livelihood. As the ocean becomes a tremendous source of livelihood, human beings became more abusive and tend to forget the importance of taking good care of it. We take what we need, we take what we want, but in return we gave nothing but a bulk of trash and polluting the water. Oceans help us survive our daily life, but we are not helping ocean life to survive, instead we are destroying it, killing millions of ocean species.

My artwork simply shows a diver giving a flower to the mermaid, and in return the mermaid gives pearl to the diver. These illustrates a mutual relationship, exchange of gratitude. The diver represents every human being who depends in the ocean us their livelihood while the mermaid represents the ocean. I strongly believe that if we just take good care of the ocean, the ocean will bless us, and will double the worth of kindness we gave to her. We need to help each other.

 “ISA as Human Bridge to Ocean Life”

Jerome V. Jocosol

About 71 percent of earth's surface is covered by water, and the ocean holds about 96.5 percent of all water in earth . My painting depicts the importance of the ocean that provides numerous purposes in our daily lives as humans, from the air that we breathe to food and medicine that help us to live and survive. Human hands giving the logo of ISA shows that through the help of International Seabed authority , Ocean deep creatures will continue to have a secured and protection policies  that regulates exploration and exploitation of deep seabed minerals. Human hands also show the importance of ISA in supporting qualified scientists and technical personnel from developing countries in marine scientific research programmes and activities. In addition, human hands represent in enhancing the role of women in marine scientific research. Also, ISA can give humans a proper education on how we can utilize and treat Ocean life as part of our home, ecosystem, and planet earth. If we, humans will do and know our responsibilities to the ocean then it will result in harmonious livelihood that the ocean can simultaneously provide and by that we contribute to the world sustainability and can produce more policies that strengthen and be the voice of the ocean to fight emerging challenges that our ocean faces today.

Jon Carlo D. Relao

I've passionately worked into this artwork, putting texture and color, and highlights and shadows. After a few rough sketches on paper, this original digital illustration was created in Photoshop using only the pen tool and a soft round brush as well as a computer mouse to navigate these tools. I had random thoughts about the creatures of the deep when working on this piece, so I did my research for reference and finally figured out my ideas. Thus, combining the real-life and illusory creatures. I am proud of this artwork because it allows me to showcase the beauty of ocean creatures, which sends a clear message to everyone that it must be protected and those activities that endanger our natural resources should be discouraged. We all know that the ocean is vast, with approximately 5% of it having been discovered and the remaining 95% was completely unexplored, leaving us with a sense of wonder about what else we can discover that might surprise us later, such as the myth of the mystical Atlantis. As depicted in this piece, I wanted to create a big, vibrant, and vivid illustration. The giant crab with the mystical Atlantis behind was inspired by an idea that probably Atlantis was a moving city, which is why everything remained a myth; the ship that symbolizes adventures and unending discoveries of the deep; and the giant octopus and other deep-sea creatures were inspired by a sci-fi movie. This is an ideal large piece of unique art, with a size of 2500 x 3500 pixels and a DPI of 150 that represents an abundance of life and livelihood.