The Door of Perception
Roger Dean is best known for his work on posters and album covers for musicians, which he began painting in the late 1960s.
Floating stones and arching rock formations became the signature features of his dreamlike landscapes. Dean’s weightless vision had its big revival in James Cameron’s Avatar. Unfortunately without any credit to Dean.
The woodcut prints of Tom Killion speak of a deep love for the landscape, a passion for the poetics of…
Paul Wunderlich was a German painter, sculptor and graphic artist. He’s one of the most important members of the Magic Realism movement.
Oscar Reutersvärd is widely acknowledged as the father of the impossible figure.
Maxfield Parrish captures a light mood in his paintings that feels supernatural and very real and tangible at the same time.
The works of Zone Patcher are the very definition of digital psychedelic art.
The fantastic Marina Abramović wants to share her legacy with the world. It’s all her knowledge condensed into a method — The Abramović Method.
Back in the early 1970s, Phil Kirkland created surreal textbook illustrations, mostly for psychology and health books.
My own infrequent writings are purely experientially and I’m not well-read enough to refer to the spiritual heritage of millenia. However others can.
This film is based on the 1967 book of the same name. It’s a radical critique of mass marketing and its role in the alienation of modern society.
Research indicates that shamans access an intelligence, which they say is nature’s, and which gives them information that has stunning correspondences with molecular biology.
I’m absolutely mesmerized by Jordan Kasey‘s paintings. Her color scheme and softness of shapes and light have a dazzling effect…
This video from 1998 is one of the last interviews before Terence passed away in April 2000.
The photographer Jimmy Nelson visited 31 secluded and visually unique tribes around the world. The result is huge — in extend and significance.
Photojournalist Sebastião Salgado traveled the Brazilian Amazon for six years to document the unfathomable wonder of this last frontier. The forest, the rivers, the mountains, and the people who live there.
After decades of neglect, the British artist and writer Ithell Colquhoun is finally recognized as one of the most exciting and creative occult thinkers of the 20th century.
The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on The Tibetan Book of the Dead is an instruction manual intended for use…
This series from 1975 takes us on a journey around the world to reveal the making and use of tribal art in some of the few places on earth where the traditions are intact.
French artist Alexandra Duprez mentions Australian Aboriginal art as her main inspiration to take up painting.
There are contemporary “back to the land” communities practicing a hunter-gatherer way of life. Projects like this will serve as a touchstone to those interested in living differently.
The following drawings are taken from the Wurzelatlas, a book series that began in 1960 and is regarded as the standard work on root research.
