Selçuk Yılmaz, a Turkey based artist, lives his days in the crowded city of Istanbul, a existence that he says often feels secluded and detached from a materialistic world that is overly obsessed with consumption.
Yılmaz often goes off to the mountains during the summer time to regroup and let his creativity run wild and free.
"It's strange how we feel alienated in crowded cities and places but always seem to find ourselves in the beauty of nature" he told StepFeed.
Art and creativity have no boundaries, and like Yılmaz once wrote,"what we have is time and space to use creativity in becoming better."
People give little to no regard toward nature and animals, and Yilmaz said that he aimed to showcase how wasteful and disrespectful people were toward earth and fellow beings that roam the world as well as to show the beauty of animals.
"The general idea is to save nature by making art and I wanted to focus on animals. I want to protect them and my art should show the beauty of these animals."
For Yilmaz, he was always drawn to nature.
"As a child, I would always run off to the mountains and just sketch. All I did for a very long time is just draw rocks and then I moved on to do sculptures."
The similarity of nature, life and art is quite underrated. For instance, all three require patience and all three require resilience.
Yilmaz has truly mastered the creation of animal sculptures made out of abandoned and thrown-away steel; he's conserving nature, attempting to lower pollution while exposing the true beauty of animals.
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