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Dreams and Imagined Realities

Dreams and Imagined Realities

Deadline for submissions: Apr 7, 2025

Juror: Emma Powell

Prints due: May 23, 2025

Exhibition: June 6 - June 27, 2025

 

Dreams offer a limitless canvas for photographers to explore inner landscapes, surreal visions, and the creative process itself. Whether emerging from the subconscious, inspired by fantasy, or rooted in personal reflection, these images possess a unique ability to transport viewers beyond reality and into the unknown.

The Enchanted Garden 2025 @ Jodoigne

Dear Artist,

 

The Art Sanctuary team invites you to propose a collaboration for the international event ‘The Enchanted Garden 2025’ at Jodoigne, Belgium. It integrates sculptures with other artistic expressions, such as poetry, music, dance, and why not theatre?

We are publishing an electronic book of poetry with photos of the sculptures as an electronic catalogue.

 

‘The Enchanted Garden’ takes place for the twelfth time during the summer of 2025 in a poetic sculpture garden with water, contrasts, and surprises in abundance. It is located halfway between Brussels, Liège and Namur and on the ‘RAVEL’ cycle path linking Leuven, Tienen, Hoegaarden, Jodoigne and Namur.

 

The working theme for 2025 is:

"Dreamscapes” - FREE Entry, $1,000 Award Competition

Presenting the inaugural "Dreamscapes" international competition and online exhibition. Artists of all ages from around the world are invited to participate, with complete freedom in choosing their preferred media and style. The competition's theme is "Dreamscapes". Only artists whose works are selected as finalists will be required to pay a $35 participation fee. Finalists will have their artwork showcased online and advance to the final round of judging, where they will be considered for cash prizes, including the chance to win the grand prize of $1,000. 

Theme: 

In Dreams

Dreams offer us a glimpse into the realm of the unconscious. Although the images flickering and manifesting behind our eyes may seem bizarre and nonsensical, analysis of one's dreams can reveal their essence. Beneath the surface of our consciousness, the latent content of dreams illustrates the hidden meaning of our thoughts, drives, and desires. We suppress the manifestation of our unconscious to defend ourselves from primitive emotions that are especially difficult to contend with. What is revealed to you as you sleep and perchance to dream? What images make you stop and ask—am I dreaming?

"Voyage-A Home Elsewhere"

It is said that after every trip, we are never the same as when we left.

As Maya Angelou wrote, “The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.” We all seek security, protection, and comfort–but such does not look the same for all of us. When we leave, we know what we are leaving but we don't know what we will find. People travel to discover new places or to discover a dimension where they can be in harmony with themselves and with others.
In this process of evolution and rebirth that the journey determines in people's lives, the only sure thing is the baggage of experiences that each of them has accumulated over time and that guide them in the following actions.

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