Irene Hardwicke Olivieri
Rewilding the Heart

Her paintings speak to us with such a refreshing immediacy, reminding us how wild it is to be alive.

Becoming
The Genesis of Life

The first stages of embryonic development are roughly the same for all animals, including humans.

The Last Honey Hunter
of Nepal

Deep and dark, this film glides through a misty world of forest spirits, dreams, and psychotropic honey.

Simen Johan
Until The Kingdom Comes

The images of Simen Johan speak to me because of their perfection, showing us the animal kingdom in a supernatural…

Tim Flach
More Than Human

We can begin to sense that we are animals too, just one experiment among countless others, shaped in reciprocity with a living world. At first, we might see otherness, but eventually, we can recognize another person staring back at us.

M. C. Escher
Hyperbolic Dreams

Escher reveals a world far away from our general perception of reality, a world of mathematics, a world of abstractions, anticipating deep features of modern day cosmology.

Hirō Isono
Into the Depths of the Sacred Forest

There is a small group of painters who are able to invoke nature’s serene magic. Isono is one of them and his love for the forest is very tangible.

Henri Rousseau
Dreams of the jungle

Today I woke up with a longing for color and the jungle. So I knew it’s time for Henri Rousseau.…

Robert Steven Connett
Miracles of life on display

The feelings provoked by Robert Steven Connett’s paintings vary widely. Some will see mostly the beautiful and the interesting, and others will see only the unsettling.

Doma India
The gentle touch

Doma India is the love of a life applied to working with horses. Being truly connected with yourself and others can move mountains.

Yudy Sauw
Insect Eyes

Take a close look at insects and remember how inconceivably wild and manifold life shapes on this planet.

Bernard Durin
Beetles and other Insects

There’s a whole earth community that has nothing to do with human beings.

Ernst Haeckel
Kunstformen der Natur

The book Kunstformen der Natur (German for Art Forms of Nature) by the biologist Ernst Haeckel is a masterpiece of art and science.

Microcosmos
Le peuple de l’herbe

This documentary from 1996 is a celebration of life.

John C. Lilly
Sensory Deprivation

Today I spent my first hour inside a floatation tank. If you never heard of it I recommend this article for a start: Sensory Deprivation Tanks. I just started to read a book by John C. Lilly the inventor of the tank. He also combined the lack of external stimuli with large doses of LSD.