Figures & data
Figure 1. Sean’s images from the hike near Muscat, Oman. March 2023.
Figure 2. (2a, left) Ahmed Al Nairi's (@aa5.5d) Reel captures moving clouds above Jebel Aswad in Oman. (2b, middle) Abdullah Alhadidi's (@qdo_) Instagram post of a wadi, or canyon, in Oman. (2c, right) Chris Burkard's (@chrisburkard) Instagram post of a canyon in the United States.
Figure 3. Frederic Church, Twilight in the Wilderness, oil on canvas, 1860, Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_in_the_Wilderness#/media/File:Twilight_in_the_Wilderness_by_Frederic_Edwin_Church_(3).jpg
Figure 4. (4a, left) Rumpa Mitra (@rumpamitra) gazes out upon the coastline of Oman. (4b, middle) Qasim Al Naabi (@qasim_.s) looks down from the top of Jebel Aswad, Oman. (4c, right) Jimmy Chin's (@jimmychin) Instagram post in British Columbia.
Figure 5. (5a, left) Jacob van Ruisdael, Wheat Fields, oil on canvas, 1665–1670, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat_Fields_(Ruisdael)#/media/File:Wheat_Fields_MET_DP145911.jpg. (5b, right) Johann Heinrich Wüest, The Rhône Glacier, oil on canvas, 1775, Kuntshaus Zurich, Zurich, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Heinrich_W%C3%BCest#/media/File:Der_Rhonegletscher_-_Johann_Heinrich_W%C3%BCest_(Kunsthaus_Z%C3%BCrich).jpg
Figure 6. (6a, left) Thomas Moran, The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, oil on canvas, 1872, National Statuary Hall, United States Capitol, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grand_Canyon_of_the_Yellowstone_(1872)#/media/File:Thomas_Moran_-_Grand_Canyon_of_the_Yellowstone.jpg. (6b, right) Detail of the two figures standing at the promontory in Moran’s Grand Canyon.
Figure 7. (7a, left) A still image from Haitham Al Shaaibi’s Instagram Reel in Oman. (7b, middle) An Instagram post from a clean-up dive off the coast of Oman, user’s identity redacted. (7c, right) Faisal Al-Hooti’s (@faisal_alh00ti) Instagram Stories post of a cleanup practices during a bike trip in Oman and the United Arab Emirates.
Figure 8. Instagram post by the aggregator account @indiapictures.
Figure 9. Still images from the 1971 television ad run by Keep America Beautiful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7OHG7tHrNM
Figure 10. Still images from Ali Mohammedi’s (@omantripper) Instagram Reel.
