Tag: environmental art

Listening to Water: Tarek Atoui’s Next Work for Tate Modern

Born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1980 and now living in Paris, Atoui has spent years building instruments that don’t sit comfortably in concert halls. Many of them involve water, glass, and ceramics — materials that react to sound instead of simply producing it.

Artists recreate memories from the dead Aral Sea (We Used to Be Seaweed)

Visitors can help plant seeds that they can take home and later return to the desert as seedlings for the local biostation. We'll also teach them how to make biodegradable containers for holding water for these plants. This is about more than just raising awareness; it's about small collective actions and new connections

Lola Tillyaeva’s ‘The Droplet’ sheds light on global water scarcity

Lola Tillyaeva enjoys a diverse range of interests including entrepreneurship, philanthropy, film production and publishing. However, one of the causes closest to her heart is environmental activism.

Iran’s Hossein Zare captures our wildest dreams in surreal photographs

Iranian photographer Hossein Zare captures in photography what we can only see in our dreams - otherworldly land and cityscapes...

The “Arabian Canal” is a Defunct Water Conduit in Dubai

In my last post I featured a photograph of an unused structure out in the desert near Dubai, a...

Landfill: Where Dubai’s Building Rubble Piles Up

My last photo blog on Green Prophet featured one of the many sites in the Hajar Mountains from which...

Desert Soccer Pitches Reveal Arab Obsession with Football

Ask yourself: if you lived in the deep desert, where the sand burns your soles at midday, would you...

David Thomas Smith “Google Maps” Your City As a Persian Rug

Irish artist David Thomas Smith weaves thousands of Google Maps screen grabs into intricate designs mimicking Persian rugs.  Look closer,...

Car Consumption: 8,000 Boring White Chevrolets in Dubai

This is a Chevrolet logistics depot in the Jebel Ali Freezone in Dubai. A rough estimate from studying the...

Write for Sustainability and Win Creative Writing Contest

Unleash your inner Thoreau, show the human side of sustainability and and win $10,000 for a creative nonfiction essay. Have...

Garbage Art Ideas from Mary Ellen Croteau

Plastic bottle cap picture by Mary Ellen Croteau The caps are synthetic artifacts, plastic products that usually aren't (and more often,...

Consumption in Dubai – Breathtaking Photos of Our Environmental Impact

Richard Allenby-Pratt's popular Abandoned photo series still haunts us. Currently based in Dubai, the professional photographer received numerous accolades...