The Door of Perception
He set out across rural Japan to document its traditional farmhouses, the minka: centuries-old structures of timber, earth and thatch that were rapidly disappearing as the country modernized.
Emma Kunz (1892–1963) grew up in poor circumstances in a village in the Swiss canton of Aargau. She had no…
A polymath on a mission to bring about a world of beauty, imagination and moral accountability. His design philosophy is one of restoration and kinship with all of life, recognizing Nature as the supreme teacher.
The Geologic Atlas of the Moon looks like abstract painting, but only as a byproduct of classifying the lunar surface into type and age. The palette exists so that four billion years can be told apart at a glance.
D O P Explore opens the archive as one connected whole. The machine’s eye reads every image and traces the affinities between them.
Painting or drawing is a form of conversation with oneself. It is a solitary relationship with his or her own intimate world. It is a work that makes people aware of their fundamental loneliness.
This is not our world with trees in it. It’s a world of trees, where humans have just arrived.
Mike Brodie rode his first freight train as a bored seventeen-year-old kid from Pensacola, Florida, looking for an adventure.
What we call dirt is, in fact, one of the most widely used building materials on Earth. Earthen architecture stands as a prime example of sustainability.
Michael Wolf’s view of these towering facades confronts us with a brutality that feels unreal — a world I almost can’t believe is the one I’m living in.
Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated. So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
Craft matters because it gives the human body a role—effort, resistance, learning, frustration—that modern automation quietly erases.
Ambasz has been called “the father, poet, and prophet of green architecture” as he anticipated much of what would become the sustainable architecture movement decades later.
My main theme is the relationship of two different dimensions in space: the real and the imaginary.
She painted like someone remembering an ancient language. Her images are not fantasies – they are instructions for waking up.
What makes us feel liberated is not total freedom, but rather living in a set of limitations that we have created and prescribed for ourselves.
Bubenik paints hybrid apparatuses fusing organic growth with silicon-based structures. This utopian synthesis resonates in the titles of the works—Butterfly Machine, Transistor Embryo, Enzymatic Receptor.
The oeuvre of Yoshifumi Hayashi is a profession of materialist-sensualist faith, a manifestation of vital and sexual desire as an intrinsic force of nature.
Lachlan Turczan is a Los Angeles-based artist whose work explores the interplay between natural phenomena and human perception.
Dr. Dain L. Tasker (1872-1964), began producing X-ray images of flowers while working as chief radiologist at Wilshire Hospital in…
The book seeks to highlight a previously overlooked dimension at the intersection of diverse fields such as anthropology, archaeology, art history, technology, and sociology: the material culture of early Saharan inhabitants.
There can be few unpublished works that have already exerted such far-reaching effects upon twentieth-century social and intellectual history as Jung’s Red Book, or Liber Novus.
The Day May Break is an ongoing global series portraying people and animals that have been impacted by environmental degradation and destruction.
The boundaries between the real and the imagined dissolve, vegetal phenomena slip into the guise of human dramas, and we can sense the magical entanglement of all realms of experience …
Her heartfelt portraits of mothers and children are imbued with an almost utopian serenity. This same raw, earthy beauty flows through all her creations, whether it’s her vibrant cakes or her drawings made with natural pigments.
Huxian Peasant Paintings are a product of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Ostensibly painted by amateur worker-peasant-soldier artists, they depict idealized scenes of the thriving socialist countryside.
Garden of Eden explores the vast world of psychoactive plants, animals and other organisms, and their uses in shamanism, spiritual exploration and healing.
Painter of poems, writer of spots, dancer of words… Michaux’s work blurs the boundaries between literature, art, and philosophy as self-experiment.
The portrayed bodies are realistically drawn yet seem to herald a transcendent realm of essence beyond life and death.
My kind of art is showing something that exists. The fractal exists. I didn’t create it, I didn’t come up with it, I found it.
These drawings and prints by Arata Isozaki visualize the fundamental concepts behind some of his most iconic buildings.
A cloud atlas is a visual representation of various cloud types, including their classification and naming conventions.
