Adobe and the Ocean Agency partnered up to raise awareness of ocean preservation leading up to the United Nations Ocean Conference. With the aim to help transform the image of the ocean, this campaign is part of an official UN Ocean Decade program. They challenged some creators using Photoshop, Illustrator, and Creative Cloud Express, to create positive, unexpected, and authentic art that brings the ocean to life through their own self-portraits. Below you can find two pieces I created for this project.
The treasures hidden under the sea are responsible for life in so many ways, and even though we haven’t discovered many of them yet, we are rewarded daily by the ocean’s riches. This first piece represents the idea that by thinking of the ocean as a sacred treasure itself, we are, in fact, protecting what is most precious to us: Life.
For the second piece, I wanted to represent my ocean self-portrait in a human figure with ocean elements coexisting as if they were one; a surreal composition that shows the complexity of both the ocean and human-beings, and somehow they are connected to each other.
Client: Adobe / João Cunico