Phyllis Galembo‘s pictures reflect the ritual adornment and spirituality of masquerade in Nigeria, Benin and Burkina Faso in West Africa. These portraits of masqueraders build on Galembo’s work of the past twenty years photographing the rituals and religious culture in Nigeria, Brazil, Cuba, Jamaica and Haiti, as well as the homegrown custom of Halloween in the United States.
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.
Sayat Nova
The Color of Pomegranates
The film does not attempt to tell the life story of a poet. Rather, the filmmaker had tried to recreate the poet’s inner world.
Sabin Bălaşa
Dreams of Eternal Blue
Bălaşa paints a unique universe, full of archetypal figures and metaphysical themes. He called it Cosmic Romanticism.
Gurdjieff
In Search of the Miraculous
Gurdjieff’s teaching combines mystical elements of Sufism, Buddhism, Christianity, Gnosticism, Zoroastrianism and the Kabbalah.
De Es Schwertberger
Heavy Light
Over more than fifty years of creating, Schwertberger’s themes and painting style evolve continuously. The path led from a figurative fantastic realism to an almost abstract, process-like creative flow.
Heinz Edelmann
My psychedelic childhood
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.
Armin Copp
Broken worlds without end
Fractals are a wonderful way of seeing infinity. Their beauty is only secondary after that lesson in perception.
Phil Kirkland
The psychedelic textbook solution
Back in the early 1970s, Phil Kirkland created surreal textbook illustrations, mostly for psychology and health books.
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.…
Anthroposophic
Architecture
I spent all my schooldays in this kind of architecture. But I was never taught about Anthroposophy. I wish to…
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.
Leo & Diane Dillon
The Heart with Wings
For more than fifty years the Dillon’s formed one of the most successful and influential illustrator partnership.
Ashtanga Yoga
Mysore Style
The term Mysore Style means you practice a memorized yoga sequence without being led by a teacher. The role of the teacher is to guide as well as provide adjustments or assists in postures.
Jerry Uelsmann
Photo Synthesis
Jerry Uelsmann uses the technique of combination printing to create his dreamlike scenes.
Noémie Goudal
Heterotopia
Goudal makes no attempt to hide any evidence of fabrication, drawing attention to the artificial, man-made aspect of photography
Cliff Briggie
Transient states
These photographs capture a split second of a transient state. Just gaze into unfolding space.
Jonathan Zawada
Over Time
Landscape topographies derived from graph data were modeled in 3D and then oil paintings created from those 3D renders.
Gerhard Riebicke
Ways to Strength and Beauty
Gerhard Riebicke’s photography paved the way for the awakening of the Lebensreform movement in the early 20th century.
Polynesian Wayfinders
The knowledge of the ancestors
The ancient art of wayfinding is an almost forgotten skill once common throughout the Pacific.
Steve Axford
Fungi, the recyclers
Steve Axford does what he likes most. It’s taking pictures and exploring the living world that unfolds evermore interconnectedness to him.
