TY - ADVS
T1 - Tree Faces digital exhibition
T2 - Photographic digital exhibition
A2 - Joy, Francis
N1 - Dr. Francis Joy is a Druid, poet, healer, and post-doctoral researcher working at the University of Lapland, Arctic Center, Rovaniemi, Finland. Originally from the United Kingdom Francis is specializing in the study of shamanism, rock art, and drum making among the Sámi and in connection with Sámi history.
Francis Joy’s photographic digital exhibition brings together a collection of tree faces, eyes, and defining characteristics that look like bodies of elves, fairies, and other beings that have been captured within different species of trees from northern Finland. These forms and features help remind us of certain magical powers inherent within trees and how they can communicate with human beings if we learn to be still and allow their presence to become more evident to us in different ways as we attune our own personal rhythm to those within nature in order to transform our lives.
In ancient times, the Druids were priests and priestesses who revered the divinities within nature, paying respect to all her kingdoms, especially trees. Trees were elevated in society due to their healing and transformative powers and because of how they have their own unique identities and personalities. They can also become guardians and protectors of land and families. They produce oxygen and play a central role and function in sustaining life on earth.
Trees can and will provide insight and answers to modern-day questions and challenges if we are respectful towards nature, purposefully slow down and open our hearts and minds and remember that like trees, we too are part of the kingdoms within nature, and as such, we may communicate with them. Thus, trees help us strengthen our connection to the natural world.
The digital exhibition will run for one year and begins with a collection of photographs that will be displayed and will change every three months. Therefore, in total, the arrangement will consist of eighty photographs, meaning twenty for each season (spring, summer, autumn, and winter). To support the materials an exhibition text is available by clicking the link below.
For further information, Francis can be contacted via email at: fjoy@ulapland.fi or druidman1962@yahoo.co.uk
PY - 2023/1/26
Y1 - 2023/1/26
N2 - The inspiration behind the exhibition comes from working with trees as art forms for decades in terms of understanding their powers and fields of consciousness concerning healing and magical qualities. What is presented to you through the exhibition consists of photographic research compiled over the past three years during the different seasons. Because there are different types of photographs that present faces, eyes, and in some cases bodily forms that look like humans, animals, or other beings from different worlds, the content has been divided up into four categories which are Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter. Within nature and the universe, there are mythical dimensions that were formed when the physical world was created and consist of various material bodies visible for example, in trees, rocks, cliffs, peninsulas, and different landscapes across the earth. These forms are often called anthropomorphic because they have human characteristics and designs, which in some cases might be representative of gods, spirits, or other supernatural powers such as animals that appear in zoomorphic forms that have certain or unique human qualities or features such as heads, faces, eyes, bodies, hair, and limbs for instance. The constant incarnation of these different life forms within the natural environment is part of a continuous act of the mysteries of creation, which has been unfolding for millions of years within the order of nature.
AB - The inspiration behind the exhibition comes from working with trees as art forms for decades in terms of understanding their powers and fields of consciousness concerning healing and magical qualities. What is presented to you through the exhibition consists of photographic research compiled over the past three years during the different seasons. Because there are different types of photographs that present faces, eyes, and in some cases bodily forms that look like humans, animals, or other beings from different worlds, the content has been divided up into four categories which are Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter. Within nature and the universe, there are mythical dimensions that were formed when the physical world was created and consist of various material bodies visible for example, in trees, rocks, cliffs, peninsulas, and different landscapes across the earth. These forms are often called anthropomorphic because they have human characteristics and designs, which in some cases might be representative of gods, spirits, or other supernatural powers such as animals that appear in zoomorphic forms that have certain or unique human qualities or features such as heads, faces, eyes, bodies, hair, and limbs for instance. The constant incarnation of these different life forms within the natural environment is part of a continuous act of the mysteries of creation, which has been unfolding for millions of years within the order of nature.
KW - tree faces
KW - seasons
KW - elements
KW - mythical
KW - human-like
KW - spiritual powers
KW - different species
KW - embodiment
KW - environment
KW - education
KW - knowledge
UR - https://www.oulu.fi/fi/tapahtumat/vuoden-2023-tiedepuutarhan-digitaalisen-valokuvanayttelyn-avajaiset?fbclid=IwAR2_5_JjEy8QEw0pt6ZsYWk0ssuWRQLIiw7hl0a1aCn_6C6mdaln_KlzLPk
M3 - Exhibition
PB - The University of Oulu Botanical Garden
CY - Oulu
ER -