La Planète sauvage (Fantastic Planet) is a classic of surreal animation. But it’s far more than just dazzlingly beautiful and disturbing, it holds thought-provoking ideas to contemplate on.
Irene Hardwicke Olivieri
Rewilding the Heart
Her paintings speak to us with such a refreshing immediacy, reminding us how wild it is to be alive.
Seeds
Time Capsules of Life
Seeds are the most complex organs produced by plants, capable of traveling space and time to ensure the biodiversity of our planet.
Lucyna Kolendo
Corpo Solido
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.
Hans-Peter Dürr
Wirklichkeit
Hans-Peter Dürr — a luminous figure of science today. Such academic knowledge and reputation rarely come with wisdom and openness. I wish more scientists would be like him.
Rebecca Reeve
Portals into the wilderness
Rebecca Reeve creates portals from the domestic into the wilderness with a bit of household drapery.
Eyvind Earle
Master of the trees
Eyvind Earle is a master of contemplative landscape paintings. To me these dream-like sceneries are highly hypnotising.
Karolina Daria Flora
Weaver of umbilical thread
Karolina’s mission is the transmutation of reality, her work far more than mere adornment — she weaves the umbilical thread that reminds us of dimensions we have just forgotten about.
Andy Goldsworthy
Working With Time
Goldsworthy is at play with the relentless flow of the elements, forming fragile and temporary moments in time.
David Jien
The Tale of the Inner Struggle
The narrative drawings reflect the eternal human struggle for the right path in life, alongside our demons.
Vaka Valo
Dream Diaries
Schematic illustrations scanned from instruction manuals turned into unsettling nightmares. He achieves a dreamlike other-worldliness only reached by few artists.
Toshio Saeki
Nothing is True
Everything is Permitted
Toshio Saeki is a psychosexual dream weaver, a grand master of mixing myth, that dream quality and pure libido.
Dying to Know
The Mystical World
This book is leading you on travels in a mysterious and visionary world.
René Magritte
Evoking the mysterious
René Magritte developed key strategies and techniques to defamiliarize the familiar, to evoke the mysterious.
Michael Ackerman
End Time City
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.
Alphachanneling
Utopian Erotic
Dive into a lush erotic jungle of entangled bodies and divine pleasures.
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.
Sophy Hollington
Carving New Realities
Sophy Hollington is a Brighton-based illustrator who has made a name for herself through her unique take on futuristic folklore realized in linocut.
Carl Gustav Jung
The Red Book
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.
Leonor Fini
Queen of the Underworld
Fini’s work blends elements of surrealism, symbolism, and fantastical imagery, with a fearless exploration of genderfluid identities and depictions of feminine energy.
John C. Lilly
Of Mountains and Molehills
This little chapter from The Center of the Cyclone by John C. Lilly turned out to be a piece of wisdom that stood the test of time.
