Portraits of Trees
Exhibited at the Photo Gallery Stolp
English
I love trees. For me, trees are the greatest teachers and "wise man" who, among others, teach us peace, presence, and transformation. At the same time, they are a mirror of society and reflect the level of human development and awareness. We are extremely connected to trees, their exhale is our breath and our exhale is their breath. And the positive effects trees have on humans, came to life due to the measurement made with technology and with that the knowledge that our ancestors knew intuitively.
Ancient civilizations were strongly associated with trees, such as the Celts with the oak tree, on the Orient, an olive tree was a sacred tree, and of course, the linden tree was the one who played a central role in the villages in Slovenia, and under which people gathered, celebrated and resolved disputes. In monotheistic religions, the tree also had an important symbolism, after all, the story of humanity begins with the choice between the tree of knowledge and the tree of life. In the part of the old Vedic text, the Upanishads, where the philosophical and spiritual essence and the highest knowledge is given, it is written that the world is an inverted tree whose roots extend to the sky and branches extend over the whole earth; in Buddhism, however, it tells the story of how under the tree of the holy fig Siddhart became awakened, Buddha. In shamanism, the tree represents the idea of a renewable cosmos that connects three levels: the underworld, because its roots explore the depths into which they penetrate; the surface of the earth with trunk and lower branches; highlands with upper branches and top attracted by the light of the sky. The tree thus bears one of the most diverse symbols, it is a symbol of life, which is constantly evolving and rising towards the sky, and at the same time symbolizes the cyclical character of cosmic development, death, and rebirth. Today, with the development of technology, we can measure the beneficial effects of trees that our forefathers intuitively perceived, thus learning the importance and connection with one of the greatest teachers, which is also considered a symbol of the relationship between earth and sky.
Slovenian
Sem velika ljubiteljica dreves. Zame so drevesa največji učitelji in veliki modreci, ki nas med drugim učijo miru, prisotnosti in transformacije. Hkrati pa so tudi ogledalo družbe in odsevajo, na kateri stopnji razvoja se nahaja človeštvo. Z drevesi smo izjemno povezani, njihov izdih je naš vdih, naš izdih je njihov vdih. Pozitivni učinki dreves na človeka pa sedaj vedno bolj prihajajo v ospredje in s tem znanja ter informacije, ki so jih naši predniki intuitivno zaznali.
Starodavne civilizacije so bile močno povezane z drevesi, kot na primer Kelti s hrastom, na orientu je bila oljka sveto drevo, pri nas pa je seveda lipa bila tista, ki je zavzemala osrednjo vlogo v vaseh, pod katero so se ljudje zbirali, praznovali in reševali spore. S pojavo monoteističnih religij je tudi tam drevo imelo pomembno simboliko, navsezadnje se zgodba o človeštvu prične z izbiro med drevesom spoznanja in drevesom življenja. V delu starega vedskega besedila, Upanišadah, kjer je podana filozofska in duhovna bit ter najvišja spoznanja o Bogu, duši in svetu, piše, da je svet obrnjeno drevo, katerega korenine silijo v nebo, veje pa se raztezajo čez vso zemljo; v budizmu pa govori zgodba o tem, kako je pod drevesom svetega figovca Siddharta postal prebujen, Buddha. V šamanizmu drevo predstavlja idejo obnovljivega kozmosa, ki povezuje tri ravni: podzemlje, ker njegove korenine preiskujejo globine, v katere prodirajo; površino zemlje z deblom in spodnjimi vejami; višave z zgornjimi vejami in vrhom, ki jih privlači svetloba neba. Drevo tako nosi eno najbogatejših in raznolikih simbolik, je simbol življenja, ki se nenehno razvija in dviga proti nebu in hkrati simbolizira ciklični značaj kozmičnega razvoja, smrt in preporod. Danes z razvojem tehnologije lahko izmerimo blagodejne učinke dreves, katere so naši predniki intuitivno zaznavali in se tako učimo pomembnosti in povezanosti z enimi največjih učiteljev, ki velja tudi za simbol razmerja med zemljo in nebom.
