The Door of Perception
Every day anew I am fascinated by the human form, my body. While looking at my trembling feet in a yoga pose, I wonder what this body is. To feel its weight and sometimes its almost levitating lightness. To become aware of the magic that this heavy inert flesh is vitalized by breath.
That’s why these pictures by Lucyna Kolendo speak to me.
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To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness.
For more than forty years, Arno Rafael Minkkinen has been photographing his body immersed in nature. What you see happening in the image happened in front of the lens.
His buildings are nothing less than an exuberant act of self-expression by Bolivia’s long-marginalized indigenous majority.
When I look at the sculptures of Constantin Brâncuşi I feel a deep serenity. It is the revelation of the…
Franciszek Starowieyski liked to think of himself as a draftsman from the 17th century. The lushness of form and erotic exuberance is truly Baroque.
The subject of Swiss painter Raffaello Ossola is consistent. He paints gateways into an ethereal realm.
A laboratory in constant change, a small museum of desires and dreams that amuse the inner child.
A book of unseen photographs documenting the early days of the British direct action environmental movement from 1995—1999.
There’s a whole earth community that has nothing to do with human beings.
The art of dying, the experience of letting go all that is known is almost forgotten in our culture.
Schematic illustrations scanned from instruction manuals turned into unsettling nightmares. He achieves a dreamlike other-worldliness only reached by few artists.
Landscape topographies derived from graph data were modeled in 3D and then oil paintings created from those 3D renders.
Noguchi fought for the reintegration of the arts toward some purposeful and social end, and nowhere was this more apparent than in its playground designs.
The long-time exposures Alexis brings back from his solitary immersions into the night reflect a desire for stillness, to retrieve a timeless meaning lost to modern man.
Artists, scientists, spiritual leaders and economists gathered in Amsterdam in 1990 to explore the emerging paradigm of a holistic world view and the implications for a global economy.
This documentary from 1996 is a celebration of life.
Osho’s discourses on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, given in Pune from 1973-76.
Asger Carlsen’s pictures make me think about my human form and its range of functions.
Cymatics is the study of visible sound and vibration. The phenomenon is visualized with various materials…
Amy Woodward’s tender photographic eye focuses on portraying the experience of early parenthood. A pivotal moment for everybody living through…
