Heinz Edelmann‘s illustrations really made a lasting impression on me as a child. His distinct style seemed all-around and I remember one picture book in particular: Andromedar SR1 (published 1970).
Caio Reisewitz
The Changing Brazilian Landscape
Reisewitz’ photographs, most of all large formats, explore the changing relation of the city and the countryside in a period of feverish economic development.
Daehyun Kim
Moonassi
Daehyun Kim’s Moonassi series is his life-time project. He draws to meditate on himself and others. And the others again can use the drawings to contemplate as well.
Malcolm Kirk
Man as Art
Malcolm Kirk traveled to Papua New Guinea in 1967. He returned repeatedly during the ensuing 13 years, documenting the extraordinary tribal decorations he had observed on that initial trip.
The Lost Tribes
of Tierra del Fuego
For seven thousand years, the Selk’nam, Yamana and Kawésqar people inhabited the forbidding archipelago of Southern Patagonia.
Las Pozas
de Edward James
Edward James — described by Salvador Dalí as “crazier than all the Surrealists together” — designed a sculptural dream garden that defies any architectural label.
Taylor Camp
Paradise Lost
I am fascinated by people who make the bold step into alternative ways of living. If none of the given choices seem to fit you, create your own!
Aldous Huxley
The Doors Of Perception
I’m just realizing that many people don’t know Aldous Huxley‘s classic book about his experiences with mescaline. It’s years ago since I read it myself but I think the title is a brilliant metaphor for the psychedelic experience.
Georgia O’Keeffe
Forces in nature and humans
Georgia O’Keeffe is mostly known for her large-scale paintings of natural forms and flowers at close range with which she sought to share the beauty she witnessed.
Swiatoslaw Wojtkowiak
Storytelling from borderlands of worlds
Swiatoslaw Wojtkowiak is a daredevil with a good eye and the guts to go beyond what meets the eye.
Anna Halprin
Breath Made Visible
Dance is not something you do for an audience to entertain, it’s a very real experience. It can heal you.
Cary Grant
Why didn’t I do this sooner?
I’m a promoter of the psychedelic experience as you might have figured. More people of high reputation need to come out of the closet and speak out about it.
Zone Patcher
Psychoactive fractal art
The works of Zone Patcher are the very definition of digital psychedelic art.
Boris Bućan
Croatian illustrator
Visually arresting and conceptually rigorous, the graphic design of Boris Bućan has recently experienced renewed international interest.
Huxley’s Legacy
The art of living, loving and dying
At the time when I picked the name The Door Of Perception I didn’t know much about Aldous Huxley and his teachings — because that’s what his writings are, rather than novels.
Alex Grey
How Art Evolves Consciousness
Alex Grey is best known for his paintings of see-through humans interwoven in the realm of energy. Until I experienced…
Der Himmel über Berlin
Wings of Desire
If the human being is the only animal that knows it lives in time, the movie is about that knowledge, a modern fairy tale about the nature of being alive.
Seasons of Mars
Wind, dunes and dry ice
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter circles the red planet since 2006. The little spacecraft sends high-res pictures of Mars’ surface ever since.
Alexander Ross
The primordial cell
Alexander Ross’ hyper worlds of cellular growth and green towering vines are one of a kind.
Anthroposophic
Architecture
I spent all my schooldays in this kind of architecture. But I was never taught about Anthroposophy. I wish to…
Karl Blossfeldt
Urformen der Kunst
Karl Blossfeldt was an attentive observers of nature, a teacher of contemplation.
