The Door of Perception
There’s a reliable way to create art that gets to the people. It’s the human body that makes you find common ground with everybody. That’s the vehicle we all share but perceive and use in such a limited way. Reminding people of their bodies is an essential function of an artist to my mind. It’s the first step towards the expansion of consciousness
Asger Carlsen does it brilliantly. Looking at his pictures makes me think about my form and its range of functions.
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.
Wim Hof is a modern-day yogi, a teacher of self-empowerment — not a stuntman.
Edward S. Curtis shows us an ancient way of life that is about to vanish. And after that the wisdom will be forever lost.
Each picture reveals minute features and textures that are normally invisible to the naked eye.
Roger Caillois’ involvement with stones isn’t so much on a scientific level, he more created a philosophy around the inner worlds of the stones.
For more than fifty years the Dillon’s formed one of the most successful and influential illustrator partnership.
I hope that I’m starting to play in that space between conventional ideas of what a human should be and what a human could be.
A laboratory in constant change, a small museum of desires and dreams that amuse the inner child.
This book is leading you on travels in a mysterious and visionary world.
Seeds are the most complex organs produced by plants, capable of traveling space and time to ensure the biodiversity of our planet.
Hans Bellmer was a photographer, sculptor, printmaker, painter and writer.
The series investigates the effects of high voltage and household cleaning products on instant pull apart color film.
In my point of view these 3D animations of mandelbrot sets are a very effective way of getting a glimpse of infinity
Most probably I will never look down at mother ship earth from space. But some astronauts did when they set out to explore the final frontier.
Alex Grey is best known for his paintings of see-through humans interwoven in the realm of energy. Until I experienced…
Fludd was striving for an universal science, combining mysticism, aesthetics and the more rational sciences to an all-embracing system of knowledge.
Especially the persistent interest in depicting light characterizes the dreamlike atmosphere in the woodblock prints of Hasui Kawase
This seminal book by Stanley Keleman explores the notion that physical human shape is interrelated with one’s emotional and psychological reality — mapping the geometry of somatic consciousness.
Karl Blossfeldt was an attentive observers of nature, a teacher of contemplation.
Paul Wunderlich was a German painter, sculptor and graphic artist. He’s one of the most important members of the Magic Realism movement.
