Martiros Sarian House-Museum
Artist's studio-residence turned gallery of vivid, color-drenched landscapes and portraits.
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About this audio guide
This guide to MUSA in Playa del Carmen starts with four hundred concrete faces resting on the seabed beneath the water, each cast from a real neighbor or fisherman along the coast. It traces how Jason deCaires Taylor, a sculptor and former diving instructor, began lowering the figures here in two thousand nine, casting molds of local people mid gesture and mid stare. The nearby Manchones reef, worn down by snorkelers and divers, is part of why the park's director wanted them somewhere else to look.
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