{"id":761,"date":"2013-03-07T16:54:50","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T20:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/?p=761"},"modified":"2013-03-07T17:00:24","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T21:00:24","slug":"barbados-hosts-underwater-art-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/barbados-hosts-underwater-art-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbados hosts underwater art gallery!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barbados is blessed to currently have an incredibly creative underwater display of art at the wreck of the SS Stavronikita!<\/p>\n<p>There you can explore the work of Austrian photographer (and diver) Andreas Franke who chose the Barbados site as a backdrop for his art that combines underwater photography and photoshop magic to create alluring and mysterious scenes. The pictures are attached to the hull of the wreck using magnets.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_762\" style=\"width: 595px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-762\" class=\"size-full wp-image-762\" alt=\"An underwater art gallery!\" src=\"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/stavronikita-barbados-art.jpg\" width=\"585\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/stavronikita-barbados-art.jpg 585w, https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/stavronikita-barbados-art-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-762\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An underwater art gallery!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Stavronikita was sunk in the 1970&#8217;s and is now an artificial reef that is home to an array of corals, fish and other marine life. The wreck is located at the <a href=\"http:\/\/barbados.org\/folkstone.htm\">Folkestone Marine Park<\/a> on the west coast of Barbados.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition is called &#8220;The Sinking World&#8221; and Andreas says &#8220;I wanted to share this fascinating, incredible underwater scenery full of lavish life&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition continues until the end of April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbados is blessed to currently have an incredibly creative underwater display of art at the wreck of the SS Stavronikita!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":762,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,85,68],"tags":[231,13,230,232],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}