Keywords: awareness; realisation; protection; nurturing; creativity

1. Capturing awareness and realisation – artistically approaching the aesthetics of sustainability
1 Art and Design, Akdeniz University, Turkey. 2 Laboratory of Biotechnology and Valorization of Natural Resources,
Ibn Zohr University, Morocco. 3 Control and Systems Engineering Department, University of Technology-Iraq, Iraq
Semin Senim Cacho Duran1, James N. Furze2,3

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Fig. 1 Diversity and devastation of forest fires in Muğla, Marmaris, Turkey: a) before; b)
after (Turkish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, August 2021)
Fig. 2 Climatic desolation and remedial solutions a) Greenland, ice sheet depletion (Matt
Mcgrath / BBC, 2020); b) urban-agriculture replacing diversity (Haber / News Centre, 2019)
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b b
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3. Fig. 4 Greenland ice sheet, relocated free floating immense ice blocks arranged
into a clock formation by artist Olafur Eliasson and geologist Minik Rosing of
Ice Watch, 2015 answering the climate summit of 2014 (Liselotte et al. 2017)
Fig. 3 Greenland ice block used to facilitate public understanding of climate
change realising awareness Place du Panthéon, Paris, 2015. Photo: Martin
Argyroglo © 2015 Olafur Eliasson (Bourriaud 2002)

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Fig. 7 Semin Cacho – ‘Scarecrow’ video and performance art,
2017
Fig. 8 Semin Cacho - Artistically drawing on relational
aesthetics

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Fig. 5 ‘Surrounded Islands’: a) pencil, fabric pastel, charcoal, wax crayon, aerial
photograph and enamel paint 33 x 56 inches, photo: Eeva-Inkeri, © Christo 1982; b)
Christo working on a collage, photo: Wolfgang Volz, New York, U.S.A., 1983
Fig. 6 ‘Surrounded Islands’ installation, 603870 square metres of floating pink woven
polypropylene fabric extending 61 metres from each island - Biscayne Bay, Greater
Miami, Florida, U.S.A. Project by Christo from 1980-83

6. Fig. 9 Installations - A hilly landscape receding into an interior room ‘Not Red but Green’, Per Kristian Nygård, Oslo 2014,
creative expansion (Csikszentmihalyi 2013)

7. Acknowledgements
We acknowledge and are especially grateful to those who strive to live their lives in alignment with natural fluctuations in appreciating
their own artistic and behavioural qualities with that of the world around us.
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References
• Bourriaud N (2002) Relational aesthetics. Les Presses Du Réel, France ISBN: 9782840660606
• Csikszentmihalyi M (2013) Creativity the psychology of discovery and invention. Harper Perennial Modern Classics, New York ISBN:
9780062283252
• Liselotte J, Klöckner CA, Swim JK (2017) Visual art as a way to communicate climate change: a psychological perspective on climate
change–relatedart. World Art. https//:doi.org/10.1080/21500894.2017.1375002