SoJie 10 - Solo's 10th Juried Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts
F.A. Moore
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SoJie 10 – Earth Day
Dear Esteemed Nominees and Solo Exhibition Members, It is fitting that for the celebration of Earth Day, that the show have a banner headline. Fine Digital Artist, Desirée Glanville, has kindly granted the use of her art for The Earth Healing Project to headline the show. The Earth Healing Project focuses your energies, along with thousands of others’, world-wide, on the healing of our planet. Desirée has provided links to freely download the art. Many are using it as a desktop image or screensaver, in order to focus thoughts throughout the day. Solo Exhibition is truly honored to use this beautiful image to set the tone for SoJie 10, and indeed for all of Solo. It is also the group avatar throughout the month of April. SoJie 10’s Earth Day theme was inspired by it. “Earth Day” is the first themed show for Solo’s Juried Invitational Exhibitions ("SoJie"s). We are delighted that you have joined us to celebrate Earth Day, 2011. More than ever, our earth needs us. We may be the most influential form of life on the planet, having a huge impact on nearly all other forms of life. Another first for SoJie events, SoJie 10 held open submissions for three days. During those three days 191 works were submitted for consideration for the themed show. Just over 150 of those were accepted, with the primary goals of theme-adherence, inclusiveness, and quality. Team Solo filled out the works for the show with select nominations from Solo’s Gallery.
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AmandaGWright
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Traditional Art This painting was inspired by my belief in Gaia, the living planet.
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Harmeet Singh
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Photographic Art
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Magi5760
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Digital Art Inspired by my own feelings that we live on a living creature that has nourished and supported us through the centuries, whom we should respect and honor. Created in photoshop with layers of photos and drawings.
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rodeorose
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Photographic Art To me this shot is about respect, trust and tolerance across cultures, and beyond this, bringing our Spirit-Self in touch with our Daily-Self. The traditional Maori welcome is called a powhiri, this involves a Hongi which is a greeting that involves pressing noses as opposed to a kiss. Another prominent feature of Maori culture are the striking tattoos that were worn. Full faced tattoos or “Moko”, amongst the Maori tribes was predominantly a male activity. Female forms of moko were restricted to the chin area, the upper lip, and the nostrils. Today the Moko still lives on as an increasing number of Maori who are opting to receive their Moko, in an effort to preserve their culture and identity.
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Sherri Nic...
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Digital Art Earthday Consciousness is a combination of Earthday!!and our wonderful Planet which is in such a Turmoil, thru wars, fighting, killings not
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Fiery-Fire
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Digital Art Description: The image is designed in photoshop program using stock images listed in the artists comments. All my life, I worshipped her And now I can’t be sure of anything Go lightly down your darkened way My oh my My oh my Let me love you true, let me rescue you by U2 – Ground benearh her feet
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rodeorose
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Digital Art It is not an Us and Them…no matter the differences..we are all an Us. We are all travelling together on this planet, and have an opportunity on EARTH DAY APRIL 22nd 2011 to join together in a “billion acts of green”… Five original shots ( Orangutan from Melbourne Zoo, wild Blue Wren and wild grasses from my neighborhood, various cloudscapes for lighting) combined into a blended composite using PSE 9 and one free texture from Flickr’s Eddi07 (macro of a dandelion).
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virgosun
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Digital Art Terra is, to the best of our knowledge, still the only planet in this part of the galaxy to host Life. She is the holder of the spark of life, home of the elements that sustain it. She is solid, tangible, real, but also charged with vital energies; our nurturing mother. I wanted to capture both solidity and energy with this image.
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Sherri Nic...
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Digital Art Earthday is here, today and everyday we should concentrate on healing our planet!!
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Wendi Donaldson
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Photographic Art Pandas are an endangered species – as are so many of our exotic animals. Adelaide Zoo, in Australia, is known for its very successful breeding programme and so have been fortunate in successfully acquiring (for a ten year period) two beautiful and rare pandas in their quest to further the Earth’s panda population. Wang Wang, the male pictured here and Funi, the female are currently being housed in adjacent enclosures ~ beautifully designed for their comfort ~ and are gradually being introduced to each other by sight and scent at this point. It is a privilege and honour to see such amazing creatures. I hold out great hope that our Earth can indeed be revitalized in this small way, with the knowledge of the professionals here.
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Fiery-Fire
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Digital Art Description: Abstraction of bamboo forest designed in ultrafractal software. Lush, green & ever growing !!
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Lynnette Shelley
643 posts
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Traditional Art Gaia (or Gaea) is the elemental earth goddess in Greek mythology. She is the primal embodiment of earth and her name literally means Earth or Land in ancient Greek. She is considered a Mother Goddess or Great Goddess in the Greek pantheon. She is often depicted as a mature buxom woman.
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Mieke Boynton
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Photographic Art Hancock Gorge is the most wonderous place I have ever been. It has a deeply spiritual ‘presence’, and has been known and cared for by Indigenous Australians for thousands of years. I have been to “Kermit’s Pool” (where this photo was taken) three times, and each time I’ve been privileged to spend time alone there. Sitting on a rock ledge by the turquoise water of “Kermit’s Pool”, Time feels suspended, and it is the kind of place where you just put your camera down and soak up the atmosphere for a while. The red and blue banded rocks are almost unbelievable in their formation, and the clarity of the water is astounding. To capture this photo, I had to find some narrow ledges to put both my feet and tripod legs, so it was a little ‘precarious’, but I wanted to show the contrast between the solid smoothness of the rocks and the silky smoothness of the water.
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Lynnette Shelley
643 posts
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Traditional Art This piece represents life / energy/ creativity. The sun wheel is an ancient symbol with Indo-European roots, and represents the sun. The sun represents life to many cultures and with the birds and the wasps both flying/solar animals (as well as representing the euphemism “the birds and the bees” for procreation), this artwork represents creation and life energy.
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Hugh Fathers
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Digital Art The number of possible futures is infinite. We are the only species, known to date, that have begun to unravel the truths behind reality. However you consider the beginnings of our species, we have managed to get this far in the relatively short time span of 150,000 years. And we managed to get here without the assistance of others. We have got here by our own skills, understanding, memory and accumulated knowledge. But as a species we will get through them . . .
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PRIYADARSHI GA...
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Traditional Art
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linaji
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Photographic Art Shot from the side of the HWY 280 in California with my Nikon D80. Don’t worry, I pulled over and took several shots using the roof of my car as the tripod. I stopped because my ‘mother’ loved oak trees and for me like the earth I feel a great love for my mother now part of ‘all that is’ and in knowing
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Jaclyn Hughes
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Digital Art It is a dream of many, to have the chance to take in a breath of clean, non-polluted air. This is my depiction of that dream becoming a reality someday. This piece is 1 of a set of 4, the 4 Elements.
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PRIYADARSHI GA...
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Erin Hammill
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Traditional Art God gave the world this remarkable gift…the breathtaking beauty of nature. I knew when I started this drawing I wanted to express my feelings, through my art, of how I feel about this planet and how we have treated it…or at least how I feel we should be treating it. So many gifts are given to us every day, some we take for granted. We can no longer take nature for granted, it may not always be with us…the animals, plants, the landscape, all being changed at the hands of us…humans. We are destroying the awe-inspiring gift given to us, and we still continue to do it daily. The tree symbolizes how the earth is being held together by nature…if we lose it we will lose ourselves…our gift…given to us to take care of, to enjoy, to admire, to call home.
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Corri Gryting ...
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Photographic Art In honor of Earth day, April 22, 2011, I am dedicating my seagull shot taken over Lake Isabella, California. The Earth has not wings her gifts wither away
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© Janis Zroback
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Traditional Art The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. In other words be awake to what is going on around you…don’t follow blindly…don’t go back to sleep Earth Songs is an artist’s journal….each section is a prayer for the earth, for land, for sea and air, for food…. as the pages turn, the images will reflect the seasons, the thoughts and musings of the diarist and will contain many different images, painted or drawn in a semi abstract way…it will be a celebration of the world that surrounds and sustains us and a prayer for it’s continuance…it can best be summed up in the words of Chief Dan George.. The beauty of the trees, the softness of the air,
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Deirdre Reynolds
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Digital Art The jungles and rain forests are one of our most valuable natural resources, yet we are rapidly losing these beautiful treasures to over-development and deforestation. Over half of the world’s species of plants, animals and microorganisms live and grow in the these tropical environments; and 40% of our planets oxygen is produced by rain forests and jungles, 20% of which is produced by the Amazon rain forest alone.
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Terence Russell
265 posts
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Photographic Art Despite having been set aside to allow nature to take its course with as little human experience as possible, atmospheric changes are melting the namesake glaciers in Glacier National Park.
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