The Door of Perception
Berndnaut Smilde performs magic. I don’t need to know how he’s creating his indoor clouds but I love it. I totally share his fascination with clouds. They are “ungraspable” as he puts it. Always within sight but unreachable. A mysterious realm that can only be experienced by contemplation.
And a short video feature on him:
In 1912, the pitface miner Augustin Lesage heard a voice telling him that he was going to become a painter…
In June 2015 Google engineers released a couple of images that caused a stir for everyone who’s able to grasp…
Every day anew I am fascinated by the human form, my body. While looking at my trembling feet in a yoga pose, I wonder what this body is.
Bălaşa paints a unique universe, full of archetypal figures and metaphysical themes. He called it Cosmic Romanticism.
Few artists have so powerfully evoked the uncanny otherness of the unconscious like Swiss artist Peter Birkhäuser.
This message is so utterly beautiful in its implications that I just want to believe it! Love & gratitude materializes in beauty.
Klaudia B. Lewandowski is a photographer and creator of visual poetry, based in Berlin. She looks at the world through the eyes of a curious child, collecting sticks and stones and flowers along the way.
Despite their brief existence, snowflakes are a testament to the limitless creativity woven into the fabric of the natural world.
The ancient and the yet unseen echoes through these arabesque hyper realms, with an almost hallucinatory effect.
Sarah Schönfeld, an artist from Berlin puts different drugs on photographic negatives. The prints look fantastic…
Ben Tolman’s ink drawings reflect the fact that there is a subtle world we only perceive in non-ordinary states of consciousness.
Her paintings speak to us with such a refreshing immediacy, reminding us how wild it is to be alive.
We all know this masterpiece but the delight is in the detail.
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!
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.
I spent all my schooldays in this kind of architecture. But I was never taught about Anthroposophy. I wish to…
End Time City is Michael Ackerman’s radical portrayal of the Indian city of Benares, the holy City of Light on the shore of the Ganges.
Fractals are a wonderful way of seeing infinity. Their beauty is only secondary after that lesson in perception.
This is as fashion as it gets on DOP. But Dutch photographer Viviane Sassen‘s work is extraordinary and transcends the common.
La Planète sauvage is a classic of surreal animation. But it’s far more than just dazzlingly beautiful, it holds many thought-provoking ideas to contemplate on.
