Friedrich van Schoor, Tarek Mawad, and Achim Treu

Friedrich van Schoor and Tarek Mawad, creators. 

 Sound&Music by Achim Treu.

 Click here to view bioluminescent forest video

The projection mapping "bioluminescent forest" is made by artists Friedrich van Schoor and Tarek Mawad.    The artists spent six weeks in the forest fascinated by the silence and natural occurrences in nature, especially the phenomenon "bioluminescence". They personified the forest to accentuate the natural beauty by creating luring luminescent plants and glowing magical mushrooms that speaks volumes to any visitor that enters the minds of the artists through viewing "bioluminescent forest".


Contact details: friedrichvanschoor@gmail.com, tarekmohamedmawad@gmail.com. 
Please see: www.3hund.com  and the project page: www.bioluminescent-forest.com

Linda Whiting

Linda Whiting

 When I was old enough to climb trees I would spend whole days up as high as I could get and believe that I was a branch of the tree I had climbed.  I just sat there, quiet and connected to my larger branch or trunk.  I ws sure that I had leaves or pine needles but only I could see them.  It was trees that taught me how to meditate  Trees taught me to enter and live in that other space, a space of complete connection.   Later, I found this poem my Michael Glaser:

I have always felt the living presence of trees

The forest that calls to me as deeply as I breathe.

As though the woods were marrow of my bone

As though I myself were a tree, a breathing, reaching arc of the larger canopy

Beside a brook bubbling up to faom like the one deep

in these woods, that call, that whisper home.

 

Cynthia Brody

              Cynthia Brody

     Cynthia Brody has been an exhibiting artist for over 35 years. She studied painting at Parsons School of Design and The New School in New York. Ms. Brody developed a style of mixed media painting that she has expanded upon throughout the years. The bulk of her work incorporates the combination of photo images with acrylic paints and found materials to create a surreal impression. The photos are often used out of context for their visual texture, and it is only upon closer inspection that the viewer begins to discover that what appears to be recognizable is actually something else entirely. Her works incorporate elements of beauty, such as metallic paints and gold leaf, which parallel the adornment of the subjects in some of the cross-cultural pieces. This is contrasted with the strong statements and pensive attitudes of the women depicted. Several of the pieces resemble icons honoring the complexity, angst and beauty of the female experience.

Ms. Brody is also a psychotherapist practicing in Lexington, Massachusetts. Her interest in the psyche is reflected in her artwork. She is the contributing editor of Bittersweet Legacy - Creative Responses to the Holocaust, a collection of art and poetry published by University Press of America. In her work as artist, editor and therapist, Ms Brody strives to raise the awareness and sensitivity of others regarding the human experience and the struggles and beauty, which are an integral part of life.