Permalink: https://media.greenpeace.org/archive/Hope-Through-Action-Street-Art-Project-in-Turkey-27MDHUWKH56D.htmlConceptually similarHope Through Action Street Art Project in TurkeyGP1SWL3YCompleted★★★★Hope Through Action Street Art Project in TurkeyGP1SWL4ACompleted★★★★★★Hope Through Action Street Art Project in TurkeyGP1SWL4HCompleted★★★★Hope Through Action Street Art Project in TurkeyGP1SWL4ICompleted★★★★Hope Through Action Street Art Project in TurkeyGP1SWL4JCompleted★★★★★★Hope Through Action Street Art Project in TurkeyGP1SWL4KCompleted★★★★Hope Through Action Street Art Project in TurkeyGP1SWL4NCompleted★★★★Hope Through Action Street Art Project in TurkeyGP1SWL4OCompleted★★★★Hope Through Action Street Art Project in TurkeyGP1SWL3VCompleted★★★★View AllGP1SWL4EHope Through Action Street Art Project in TurkeyHusna Cakir, a Turkish artist usually specialising in miniature paintings, paints a wall in Ulamis village, Turkey as part of a global street art project entitled Hope Through Action.Hope Through Action is a global street art project, bringing ten large-scale murals to ten cities around the world. This mural is in Turkey, located in Seferihisar, known as a ‘slow city’, Ulamis is a village where 2600 people live. However every weekend it is filled with people from the city, who come for its farmers market and heirloom bread. Greenpeace Turkey collaborated with local NGO Atölye Deneme Sanat ve Ekolojik Çalışmalar Derneği, and artist Husna Cakir ,who specialises in traditional Turkish arts to bring the warm and sweet breeze of hope through art. Husna covered her painting with bales of reclaimed plastic bottles, symbolizing the plastic waste imported to Turkey from other countries. She let local people interact with the art and asked them to remove any objects disturbing them, to unveil ‘nature’s purest state.’Locations:Turkey-Western AsiaDate:10 Nov, 2021Credit:© Buse Altun / GreenpeaceMaximum size:5184px X 3456pxKeywords:Actions and protests-Art works-Break Free from Plastics (campaign title)-Climate (campaign title)-Day-KWCI (GPI)-Outdoors-Painting actions-Villages-WallsShoot:Hope Through Action - Global Street Art Project in Turkey - PhotosHope Through Action is a global street art project, bringing ten large-scale murals to ten cities around the world. This mural is in Turkey, located in Seferihisar, known as a ‘slow city’, Ulamis is a village where 2600 people live. However every weekend it is filled with people from the city, who come for its farmers market and heirloom bread. Greenpeace Turkey collaborated with local NGO Atolye Deneme and artist Husna Cakir ,who specialises in traditional Turkish arts to bring the warm and sweet breeze of hope through art. Husna covered her painting with bales of reclaimed plastic bottles, symbolizing the plastic waste imported to Turkey from other countries. She let local people interact with the art and asked them to remove any objects disturbing them, to unveil ‘nature’s purest state.’Related Collections:Hope Through Action Global Street Art Mural Project - Global Collection (Photo & Video)
