Eyvind Earle is a master of contemplative landscape paintings. To me these dream-like sceneries are highly hypnotising. And after watching the documentary at the end of the post you will know — he also led his life with mastery.
Mati Klarwein
Images of a generation
No introduction needed. Here’s Abdul Mati Klarwein. Maybe I feel especially familiar with his style of painting because it was…
Roger Caillois
The Writing of Stones
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.
Terence McKenna
On Cyber Culture
McKenna’s offers far-sighted perspectives on the cyber punk culture and virtual reality. I miss this kind of utopian thinking these days. Where are we heading for with our technology? What could be a positive ultimate goal of it?
Wolfgang Hutter
Unquenched Desires and the Big Fear
Wolfgang Hutter was clearly gifted with an exceptional receptivity to feel the call of beauty and the creative power to translate it back into form.
Paul Gustave Doré
Christian Imagery
Every belief system has to offer a good story. The more poetic and sensational the more likely to find followers. Paul Gustave Doré‘s way of depicting Christian imagery is a great example.
Yoga
Made in GDR
A practice of self-enquiry like yoga isn’t on the agenda of a system of control and conformity. But even in East Germany people pursued this path, despite the risk of arousing suspicion.
Joth Shakerley
The Rainbow Tribe
Joth Shakerley is following the Rainbow Family for over twenty years. The pictures he brought back are beyond words.
Nine Eyes
Stranger Than Fiction
The neutral gaze of the machine is becoming an ever-present reality, recording all those moments previously lost in time.
Cymatics
Bringing Matter to Life with Sound
Cymatics is the study of visible sound and vibration. The phenomenon is visualized with various materials…
Painted Land
Australian Aboriginal Art
The art of the Australian Aborigines is one of the oldest artistic traditions alive. This selection shows paintings from the mid-fifties until now by artists from the Arnhem Land region in Northern Australia.
Irving Penn
Worlds in a Small Room
Best known for his fashion photography, Irving Penn’s repertoire also includes portraits of creative greats, still lifes and ethnographic photographs…
Alexis R.
Embroidery of Autonomy
A few hours ago I found this woman sitting on the floor near the marketplace of a small town in Southern France.
Asger Carlsen
Studies on flexibility of relation
Asger Carlsen’s pictures make me think about my human form and its range of functions.
Dain L. Tasker
The Love Life of Plants
Dr. Dain L. Tasker (1872-1964), began producing X-ray images of flowers while working as chief radiologist at Wilshire Hospital in…
Breath of the Gods
The origins of modern Yoga
The documentary investigates the origins of modern yoga and presents especially Krishnamacharya’s life and teachings.
Pierre Verger
Black Gods in Exile
From detached gaze to initiatory knowledge: Verger is a true messenger between worlds.
Klea McKenna
Automatic Earth
Automatic Earth refers to what I see as a ‘blue print’ that exists within nature; a plan within each organism to automatically generate a particular form or pattern that is then, inevitably flawed.
Ray Collins
The irresistible force
Capturing the fleeting moments of a wave’s journey to dissipation, Australian photographer Ray Collins feels more at home floating in…
Augustin Lesage
The voices you heard were real
In 1912, the pitface miner Augustin Lesage heard a voice telling him that he was going to become a painter…
María Medem
Dancing between Earth and Sky
A perfect summer night and the mental state of being truly present to the current moment in time.
