Welcome to the Social Art Award 2025 – Online Gallery!
🌊 Dear friends of art and transformation, 🌊
A heartfelt thank you to all artists and creatives who submitted their powerful works for this year’s Social Art Award under the theme: “Planetary Healing – Blue Tribes for Ocean Health.” Your inspiring visions speak to ocean restoration, biodiversity, and reimagining our coexistence with all life forms on Earth.
After receiving 922 submissions from across all continents, and concluding a very active public voting phase, the Social Art Award now enters its next chapter:
🔹 What’s next?
The professional jury panel is currently reviewing and selecting the TOP 100 entries that will be featured in the official Social Art Award 2025 book. In parallel, the two public voting winners will move forward as wildcards into the final jury round.
🔹 Coming up:
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Shortlisted artists (TOP 10) will be announced by mid-June.
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Winners of the Social Art Award 2025 will be revealed at our Online Award Ceremony on July 2, 2025.
We invite you to stay connected as we celebrate the power of Social Art to drive dialogue, awareness, and collective transformation.
Let’s continue to amplify art as a force for Planetary Healing.
Marine and terrestrial romance stories
Dhanny danot Sanjaya
Life on land and in the ocean is bound up in a very strong way. In every wave that rolls on the beach, the ocean flows into the land. In every river that flows into the ocean, trees, land, water and wildlife are connected. In the last 4 years, i'm interested in themes related to the complex interactions between humans and nature, showing the struggle for power, balance, and sustainability. On several occasions I have done personal research in coastal areas in Tangerang, Indonesia. In each of these activities, I always find various types of waste scattered on the coastline. Various types of plastic, styrofoam, diapers, televisions, ropes, light bulbs, lighters, incense, toothpaste, toothbrushes, glass bottles and other types. Some beaches also leave dead fish carcasses among the waste we produce. The problems in our oceans also originate from our problems on the mainland. One of them is about the failure of our waste management system on land, that less than 10% of waste in Indonesia is recycled. These selected documentary photos obtained during my research, which are then manipulated using the lenticular print technique, I manipulated the waste findings by replacing them with more natural things (such as leaves, flowers, wood,etc) to build a better narrative about marine and terrestrial romance stories. (see detail artwork : https://danot.net/portfolio/marine-and-terrestrial-romance-stories/)
Life on land and in the ocean is bound up in a very strong way. In every wave that rolls on the beach, the ocean flows into the land. In every river that flows into the ocean, trees, land, water and wildlife are connected. In the last 4 years, i'm interested in themes related to the complex interactions between humans and nature, showing the struggle for power, balance, and sustainability. On several occasions I have done personal research in coastal areas in Tangerang, Indonesia. In each of these activities, I always find various types of waste scattered on the coastline. Various types of plastic, styrofoam, diapers, televisions, ropes, light bulbs, lighters, incense, toothpaste, toothbrushes, glass bottles and other types. Some beaches also leave dead fish carcasses among the waste we produce. The problems in our oceans also originate from our problems on the mainland. One of them is about the failure of our waste management system on land, that less than 10% of waste in Indonesia is recycled. These selected documentary photos obtained during my research, which are then manipulated using the lenticular print technique, I manipulated the waste findings by replacing them with more natural things (such as leaves, flowers, wood,etc) to build a better narrative about marine and terrestrial romance stories. (see detail artwork : https://danot.net/portfolio/marine-and-terrestrial-romance-stories/)