The Cancun Underwater Museum in Mexico ( Cancun Underwater Museum (MUSA) is one of the world's largest underwater museums, the museum originated from the Mexican National Marine Park's coral reef protection program, in Cancun's crystal-clear seabed has 500 life-size statue groups distributed in 200 square meters of the seabed.

Because of the increasing damage to natural coral reefs by boats and divers, the reefs are being damaged by the sea. In order to divert tourists, an innovative idea was created. Originally a man-made reef, the nature conservation project became an art project with the intervention of sculptor Jason Taylor. It took him 18 months, 120 tons of concrete and gravel, 400 kilograms of silicon and 38,000 meters of fiberglass to create 477 sculptures of human figures that were placed on the sea floor of Manjun near Cancun. These groups are divided into small areas according to themes, including "Silent Evolution", "Time Like a Shuttle", "Man on Fire", "The Saint" and other works. From 2009 to 2013, the Cancun Underwater Museum has set up three exhibition areas with a total of 500 statues on display.

The completion of the installation is a two-step process: the first step is The first step is to take the material for the statue. Jason started in the small fishing village where he lives, and took the molds directly from the faces of the villagers, giving a strong sense of realism to the life-size statues. After the molds were made, special concrete with a neutral pH value was poured and molded, so as not to pollute the underwater environment. Each statue has its own air holes and scratches, which are conducive to the attachment and growth of marine life. The installation is carefully placed on the seafloor and fixed to the seabed at a depth of 3 to 6 meters, and the second step of the installation will be completed by time and the ocean.

These statues are born from people who have actually lived in this world. These bodies, framed at a certain point in their lives, die at the moment of shedding, like cicadas. After they enter the water, they stand quietly at the bottom of the sea, waiting for a second life. All the figures have their eyes slightly closed, still loaded with the burden of life, immersed in a faint joy and sorrow.

One by one, the statues were placed in their resting places for seven years, and slowly seaweed sprang up from their ears, red twig-like fire coral from their eye sockets, and barnacles and starfish crawled all over their bodies. Their faces as human beings gradually disappear, slowly becoming a forest, an island of the future. Seaweed swayed on them, dancing with the sunlight, and the fish swarmed between the human figures, flying freely. Occasionally a small tropical fish will rub itchy on the face of a statue, the kind of tender intimacy, indescribable.

The statue is fulfilling its mission, using its humanoid body to provide a breeding ground for coral, and then to accommodate more marine life to breed and inhabit as part of the local marine ecosystem. Interestingly, these statues are still walking in that small fishing village, still going through the inevitable life of old age, sickness and death. The statues, however, will carry more life and flourish in the flux of life, living forever on the sea floor. This wonderful contrast makes people sigh.