Title: Environmental Art: Five Contemporary Artists And The Environment
Headings: 5 Awesome Contemporary Artists Shining a Light on the Environment
5 Awesome Contemporary Artists Shining a Light on the Environment
These innovative artists use their talents to honor and care for the Earth
1. Naziha Mestaoui
2. Ludovico Einaudi
Enjoy the stunning video, in which glaciers move and break behind him:
3. Jane Ingram Allen
4. Matthew Willey
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5. Rachel Sussman

Content: The earliest version of this constantly changing environmental art was exhibited in 2012 in Rio de Janeiro for the The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20). Since then, it has traveled around India, Turkey, France, and beyond and was featured in 2015 on the Eiffel Tower for the opening of the Paris Climate Conference (COP21). This projection was live streamed by over 1 million people around the world. Mestaoui is currently working on the international tour for “1 Heart 1 Tree.” If you join the project and pay to plant a tree, you’ll receive “a digital picture of your virtual tree, a certificate, a Google Earth file of the plantation zone you contributed to plant in, and a report about the project every 6 months, during 3 years.” Since it’s inception in 2012, 55,000 virtual trees have been purchased and the same amount of correlating real trees have been planted on all five continents. 1 Heart 1 Tree, Courtesy of Naziha Mestaoui
Here’s more from Mestaoui on her inspiration for the piece: Everything is interconnected at a fundamental level. My calling was revealed to me on a journey into the heart of the Amazon Forest … I lived with a native tribe called Ashaninka and I was so amazed by the connection they have to the natural world, to this subtle reality made of material and immaterial and especially to trees, seen as carriers of wisdom. Following this trip, Mestaoui was committed to creating something that would: