Visitors to a new art installation in the Caribbean will need to take masks and oxygen tanks, called A World Adrift, the Underwater Sculptural Exhibition is the work of a British artist who wants to highlight the dangers of climate change for the West Indies.

Special correspondent Malcolm Brabant reports for our ongoing coverage of the intersection of art and climate change and our series canvas.

In common with every artist,

Jason de Carey's Taylor's vision begins with a blank canvas,

but his latest is more exotic than most, the shallows of the Caribbean.

For me it's really important, it's a way of telling stories about the sea, it's about a relationship to nature,

and looking into this fascinating space where colours are different

refraction is different textures formations evolution even how you feel is

completely different.

Taylor's Kavanaugh studio in the county of Kent, southeast of London is currently empty.

The sculptures and the message they convey are being installed on the sea floor.

What's left behind are his preparatory models?

This is trying to get an idea of what the large pieces are going to look like once they're underwater.

So we try to replicate the water, the surface

texture, how light will penetrate through that and how again the organic

transformation will adhere to the figures and change how they look.

This is where you'll be able to find the installation nestling in the turquoise waters of

Karyaku, one of three islands that comprise the small nation of Grenada, Paradise in Peril.

They're small boats, they're made to look like they're fabricated in origami,

they're actually made in marine stainless steel and they encompass these local

school children and they have sales which also sort of depict messages about

climate change. But overall it's meant to sort of show this fragile future that we're building for our

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